CELEX: 62018CN0717
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-15 00:00:00
Title: Case C-717/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van Beroep te Gent (Belgium) lodged on 15 November 2018 — Procureur General, other party: X

28.1.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 35/12
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van Beroep te Gent (Belgium) lodged on 15 November 2018 — Procureur General, other party: X
      (Case C-717/18)
      (2019/C 35/15)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Hof van Beroep te Gent
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Procureur-General
      
         Other party: X
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Does Article 2(2) EAWFD, (1) as transposed into Belgian law by the Wet EAB, permit, for the purposes of the executing Member State’s assessment of the minimum maximum three year threshold imposed therein, recourse to be had to the criminal legislation that was applicable in the issuing Member State at the point in time at which the European arrest warrant was issued?
               
            
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                  Does Article 2(2) EAWFD, as transposed into Belgian law by the Wet EAB, permit, for the purposes of the executing Member State’s assessment of the minimum maximum three year threshold imposed therein, recourse to be had to criminal legislation, applicable at the point in time of the issue of the European arrest warrant, allowing for a more severe penalty, as compared to the criminal legislation that was applicable in the issuing Member State at the point in time the offences were committed?
               
            
         (1)  2002/584/JHA: Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States — Statements made by certain Member States on the adoption of the Framework Decision (OJ 2002 L 190, p. 1).