Measure Implementation

Is this measure possible in your Member State under International Judicial Cooperation?

The request must be accompanied by the original freezing certificate issued in the issuing state together with a translation into English or Maltese. The request must indicate precisely what bank accounts are required to be frozen.

Legal Framework

International legal framework applicable for this measure in your Member State

REGULATION (EU) 2018/1805 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 November 2018 on the mutual recognition of freezing orders and confiscation orders

Competent Authority

* receive the request/decision for judicial cooperation

Asset Recovery Bureau is the competent issuing/executing authority. The Office of the Attorney General is still competent to receive or transmit such requests but does not execute them.

Accepted languages

Accepted languages for the request/decision

Maltese or English

Execution deadline

Deadlines for the execution of the request/decision (where applicable)

N/A

Concise legal practical information

Special requirements

N/A

Last reviewed on 17 September 2022 by EJN Secretariat

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