CELEX: 62020CN0648
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Case C-648/20: Reference for a preliminary ruling from Westminster Magistrates’ Court (United Kingdom) made on 1 December 2020 — Svishtov Regional Prosecutor’s Office v PI

22.2.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 62/16
            
         
      Reference for a preliminary ruling from Westminster Magistrates’ Court (United Kingdom) made on 1 December 2020 — Svishtov Regional Prosecutor’s Office v PI
      (Case C-648/20)
      (2021/C 62/19)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Referring court
      
      Westminster Magistrates’ Court
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Svishtov Regional Prosecutor’s Office
      
         Defendant: PI
      
         Question referred
      
      Where surrender is sought in order to prosecute a requested person, and where the decision to issue an underlying national arrest warrant (‘NAW’) and the decision to issue a European arrest warrant (‘EAW’) are both taken by a public prosecutor, without any involvement of a Court prior to surrender, does a requested person receive the dual level of protection envisaged by the Court in Bob-Dogi C-241/15 (1) if:
      
                  a.
               
               
                  the effect of the NAW is limited to detaining the individual for a maximum of 72 hours for the purpose of bringing him before a Court; and
               
            
                  b.
               
               
                  on surrender, it is solely a matter for the Court whether to order release, or to continue detention, in light of all the circumstances of the case?
               
            
         (1)  Judgment of the Court of 1/6/2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:385)