Fiches Belges

the Certificate should be sent to the court. The court decides on the recognition and enforcement within 90 days after receiving the certificate and decisions.

Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences or measures involving deprivation of liberty for the purpose of their enforcement in the European Union (Act No. 549/2011).

The competent authority for recognition and enforcement of the judgment from another Member State is the Regional Court in whose territorial jurisdiction is the permanent residence or the last permanent residence of the sentenced person or the place where the person serves his/her sentence, failing that the competent authority shall be the Regional Court in Bratislava.

The Slovak Republic will accept a translation of the certificate into either the Slovak or the Czech language (from the Czech Republic).

The court shall decide within 90 days from the reception of the decision and the certificate. The time requested for obtaining additional information from the issuing judicial authority, essential for the decision on the recognition and the execution to be taken, will not be counted into this time limit.

The Slovak Republic, with reference to Article 23(3) of Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA, reserves the right to request from the issuing State a translation of the judgment or its essential parts into the Slovak language if the content of the certificate should be insufficient in order to decide on the enforcement of the sentence. The Slovak Republic examines the question of dual criminality only in relation to the crimes which are not included in 32 categories of criminal offences.