Part 2 Surrender of Persons

§ 4 Requests for Surrender and Requests for Extradition
(relating to Article 90 of the Rome Statute)

(3) If extradition has not been approved at the time of receipt of the request of the Court for surrender, the decision regarding this will be deferred conditional upon paragraph 5 until a decision regarding approval of the surrender. The decision regarding which request will be given priority will be made in accordance with Article 90 para. 2, 4, and 7 (a) of the Rome Statute.

Part 2
Surrender of Persons

§ 4
Requests for Surrender and Requests for Extradition
(relating to Article 90 of the Rome Statute)

(3) If extradition has not been approved at the time of receipt of the request of the Court for surrender, the decision regarding this will be deferred conditional upon paragraph 5 until a decision regarding approval of the surrender. The decision regarding which request will be given priority will be made in accordance with Article 90 para. 2, 4, and 7 (a) of the Rome Statute.

Article 90
Competing requests
3. Where a determination under paragraph 2 (a) has not been made, the requested State may, at its discretion, pending the determination of the Court under paragraph 2 (b), proceed to deal with the request for extradition from the requesting State but shall not extradite the person until the Court has determined that the case is inadmissible. The Court's determination shall be made on an expedited basis.

This provision is narrower than the ICC Statute.

The German Law on Cooperation provides that the decision on extradition is deferred until the State decides whether to approve surrender to ICC, not until the ICC decides whether the case is admissible or not. It seems that if the State has already approved extradition when it receives a request of surrender by ICC, the State might procede with the extradition of the suspect, while the Rome Statute requests the State to suspend the extradition until the ICC has decided on admissibility.