Explanatory note

This Order consolidates, with amendments, the European Convention on Extradition Order and the amending Orders listed in Part II of Schedule 5 to the Order. The main amendments are the addition of Andorra, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Russian Federation to the list (in Schedule 3 to the Order) of States parties to the European Convention on Extradition (“Convention States”) together with the declarations and reservations made by those States, and the addition of certain reservations or declarations made by Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Hungary, Turkey, Slovakia and Israel (who are already parties to the Convention).