Reservations and Declarations Reservations and Declarations

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch 4, Pt 33A added by European Convention on Extradition 2003 art 2(1), (4)
Sch 4, Pt 3A added by European Convention on Extradition 2003 art 2(b)(i), Sch 1
Sch 4, Pt 9 rev in pt by European Convention on Extradition 2003 art 2(b)(ii)
Sch 4, Pt 32A added by European Convention on Extradition 2003 art 2(b)(iii), Sch 2
Sch 4, Pt 2A added by European Convention on Extradition (Armenia and Georgia) 2002 art 2(b)(i), Sch 1
Sch 4, Pt 12A added by European Convention on Extradition (Armenia and Georgia) 2002 art 2(b)(ii), Sch 2

The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany considers Portugal’s reservation (under item c) to Article 1 of the Convention to be compatible with the object and purpose of the Convention only if refusal to grant extradition for offences punishable by a life-long sentence or detention order is not absolute. It takes the reservation to mean that the only circumstance in which extradition will not be granted is where there is no possibility under the law of the requesting state for the person sentenced to life imprisonment, having completed a certain proportion of the sentence or period of detention, to obtain a judicial review of his case with a view to having the remainder of the sentence commuted to probation.