Portugal

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

Part V
Supervision of conditionally sentenced or conditionally released offenders

CHAPTER VI
Common provisions


Article 142
Contents of the request

1. Requests for co-operation shall be prepared and organised in accordance with both the provisions of Article 23 and the specific requirements listed in the following paragraphs.

2. Requests for supervision shall include:

a) the reasons for supervision;
b) a description of the supervisory measures prescribed;
c) the nature and duration of the supervisory measures the application of which is requested;
d) information about the character of the offender and his behaviour in the requesting State before and after the date of the decision imposing supervision.

3. Requests for supervision and enforcement shall be accompanied by the decision imposing a criminal reaction and the decision to revoke conditional suspension of the pronouncement or enforcement of sentence.

4. The enforceable nature of both decisions shall be certified in the manner prescribed by the law of the requesting State.

5. Where the decision to be enforced has replaced an earlier one and does not contain a recital of the facts of the case, the decision containing such recital shall also be attached.

6. If it is considered that the information supplied by the requesting State is insufficient for the purposes of granting the request, additional information shall be requested; a time-limit for receipt of such information may be fixed.

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