The Austrian Public Prosecutor's Office is, provided that certain conditions are met, an issuing judicial authority within the meaning of Framework Decision 2002/584 on the European arrest warrant, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Wednesday 9 October (Case C-489/19 PPU).
In this urgent case, the German court asks the Court whether it can execute the European arrest warrant issued in May by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Vienna (Austria) against a person temporarily...