The Court of Justice of the EU has clarified the scope of the principle ne bis in idem applicable when executing a European arrest warrant in respect of acts which were previously the subject of a sentence in a third country, in a judgment delivered on Thursday 29 April in case C-665/20.
The case concerns a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) issued in 2019 by the German judicial authorities against X, in order to conduct criminal proceedings for acts committed in 2012 against his partner and her...