The Nordic Arrest Warrant finally in force
On 16th November 2012, the Convention on surrender on the basis of an offence between the Nordic States, the Nordic Arrest Warrant (NAW) finally entered into force for all the Nordic states, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Subsequently, the national acts implementing the convention also entered into force on that date, as is typical for conventions, when the conventions enter into force, so does the national implementing legislation. Although the Nordic states had amended their legislation accordingly before this date, they were waiting for the convention to enter into force for the national acts becoming applicable. An exception of this was the Finnish act, which had already been in force since 2008. The reason for this was merely practical, it was considered feasible to have only one act regulating Nordic arrest warrants in force at the same time. This created, however, a peculiar situation in relation to those arrest warrants received during this time, when the other Nordic states did not yet apply the NAW.
Journal/Publisher: European Criminal Law Review, Vol. 4, 1/2014
Publication type: Article
Number of pages/Page range: 41-45
Language/s (content): English
Date of publication: 01-05-14
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