The term “trial resulting in the decision”, as defined in the Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), should be interpreted as “any step of the proceedings, which has the decisive influence on the deprivation of a person’s liberty.”. An arrest warrant issued for a person convicted in a trial in absentia cannot therefore, save in exceptional circumstances, be executed, the Advocate General, Tamara Ćapeta, ruled on 27 October in her Opinion to the EU Court of...