Portugal

Law No. 144/99, of 31 August, on International Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters

Part I
General

CHAPTER I
Subject-matter, scope and general principles of international judicial co-operation in criminal matters


Article 12
Applicable law

1. The following shall have legal effect in Portugal:

a) any facts that, under the law of the requesting State, interrupt or suspend time-limitation periods;
b) any complaint submitted in due time to a foreign authority, in cases where a complaint is regarded as a requirement under Portuguese law.

2. Where the Portuguese law alone regards the complaint as a requirement for prosecution and where the person entitled to complain objects, no criminal reaction shall be imposed or enforced in Portugal.

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