Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment
C-398/19Proceedings relating to the extradition of BY
- Decided
- 2020-12-17
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2020:1032
- CELEX
- 62019CJ0398
- Finality
- Final, the decision cannot be appealed
The court's own keywords
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Citizenship of the European Union – Articles 18 and 21 TFEU – Extradition of a Union citizen to a third State – Person acquiring Union citizenship after transferring the centre of his or her interests to the Member State from which extradition is requested – Scope of EU law – Prohibition on extradition applied solely to own nationals – Restriction on freedom of movement – Justification based on the prevention of impunity – Proportionality – Information to the Member State of which the requested person is a national – Obligation on the Member State from which extradition is requested and the Member State of origin to ask the third State requesting extradition to send the criminal investigation file – No obligation.
Interprets
Read from EU:s publikationsbyrå, Cellar (EUR-Lex och CURIA) on 2026-08-22.
The row repeats what the source states. It is not a summary, not a conclusion about any single case and not legal advice.
Verifiable trust signals
- Six fixed blocks, one source per line
- No sentence written by a language model
- Engine version and read date on every answer
- No customer data, no documents, no advice
- Model card and audit published under the EU AI Act