Melvin West

The reference for a preliminary ruling made by Korkein oikeus - Finland concerns the interpretation of Article 28(2) of Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA of 13 June 2002, on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States. It concerns Mr. West who was the subject of three successive European arrest warrants.

The Court concludes that Article 28(2) must be interpreted as meaning "that, where a person has been subject to more than one surrender between Member States pursuant to successive European arrest warrants, the subsequent surrender of that person to a Member State other than the Member State having last surrendered him is subject to the consent only of the Member State which carried out that last surrender".

Such conclusion is especially based on the objective pursued by the Framework Decision of accelerating and simplifying judicial cooperation between the Member States.