Transportation and transit through State territory for surrender

Poland

Poland - Cooperation with the ICC 2004 EN

Chapter 66a. Co-operation with the International Criminal Court

Art. 611i. § 1. In the event of unscheduled landing in the territory of the Republic of Poland of a person who is being transported to the Court by air, the Minister of Justice may demand that the Court submits a request for transit.

§ 2. If, within 96 hours from unscheduled landing, the request referred to in § 1 is not received, the transported person shall be released.

Poland - Criminal Procedure Code 1997 (2003) EN

Article 593. § 1. The petitions for extradition by a foreign State of a person against whom criminal proceedings have been instituted, for extradition in order to conduct judicial proceedings or enforce the imposition of the penalty of deprivation of liberty, for transportation of a prosecuted or sentenced person through the territory of a foreign State, or for or for transmitting from the territory of a foreign State the material evidence or objects acquired by the perpetrator through his offence, shall be filed through the Attorney General by the courts and state prosecutors.

Article 606. § 1. Permission for the transportation of a prosecuted person through the territory of the Republic of Poland shall be granted by the Minister of Justice. Articles 594, 604 and 605 shall be applied accordingly.

Rome Statute

Article 89 Surrender of persons to the Court

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(a) A State Party shall authorize, in accordance with its national procedural law, transportation through its territory of a person being surrendered to the Court by another State, except where transit through that State would impede or delay the surrender.