Slovakia

Criminal Procedure Code No. 301/2005 Coll. - Part Five: Legal Relations with Abroad

CHAPTER FOUR
TRANSFER OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

Section 528
Transfer of criminal proceedings from abroad

(1) The Prosecutor General’s Office shall have jurisdiction to take the decision on the request by a foreign authority to take over the criminal proceedings it is conducting. The Prosecutor General´s Office shall inform the ministry of justice accordingly.

(2) If the Prosecutor General’s Office accepts the request under paragraph 1 it shall instruct without delay the competent prosecutor’s office to proceed under the provisions of this Code.

(3) Any procedural act carried out by the authorities of the requesting State in accordance with the law of that State, shall have in the Slovak Republic the same validity as if it had been carried out by the Slovak authorities, provided that its admission does not give this act a greater evidentiary weight than it has in the requesting State.

(4) If the requesting State revokes its request for transfer of criminal proceedings by the reason of continuing the criminal proceedings by itself, Slovak authorities shall loose the jurisdiction to continue in the criminal proceedings.

Keywords

Complementarity
Deferral of case by ICC to State



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