Wijziging van de Overleveringswet in verband met het arrest van het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie in de gevoegde zaken C-508/18 OG en C-82/19 PPU PI

This Dutch bill amends the Overleveringswet, the law that governs surrender of suspects and convicted persons to other countries. It responds to a 2019 Court of Justice of the EU ruling (joined cases C-508/18 OG and C-82/19 PPU PI). The Court held that a public prosecutor who may be subject to instructions from the executive branch cannot be treated as a 'judicial authority' able to issue a European arrest warrant. The bill aligns Dutch law with that interpretation. This summary is based on the title and metadata only, not the full legislative text. The bill mainly affects judicial authorities, prosecutors and courts handling European arrest warrants, and people who are subject to such warrants in the Netherlands. It is intended to ensure that surrender requests meet the EU requirement of independent judicial review. Details of the changes are not available from the metadata.