Transportation and transit through State territory for surrender

Poland

Poland - Code of Criminal Procedure 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.

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.

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.