# The European Convention on Extradition Order 2001, Reservations and Declarations


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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/962/schedule/4/part/13/crossheading/reservations-and-declarations (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/european-convention-on-extradition-order-2001/schedule-4/part-13/crossheading-reservations-and-declarations
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