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On 25 June 2020, AG Campos Sanchez-Bordona delivered his opinion in case C‑510/19, which concludes as follows:

‘Article 6(2) of Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States, as amended by Council Framework Decision 2009/299/JHA of 26 February 2009, must be interpreted as meaning that the concept of “executing judicial authority”, as an autonomous concept of EU law, does not include a public prosecutor’s office in a Member State which is exposed to the risk of being subject, directly or indirectly, to directions
or instructions in specific cases from the executive.

Article 27(2)(g) and (3) of Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA must be interpreted as meaning that a public prosecutor’s office in a Member State which is exposed to the risk of being subject to directions or instructions in specific cases from the executive cannot grant the consent to which that provision refers.’