European Convention on Extradition

European Convention on Extradition
Signed 13 December 1957
Location Paris
Effective 18 April 1960
Parties 50 (all member states of the Council of Europe, Israel, South Africa and South Korea)
Depositary Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Languages English and French

The European Convention on Extradition is a multilateral extradition treaty drawn in 1957 up by the member states of the Council of Europe and in force between all of them. The Convention is also available for signature by non-members which as of January 2012 are Israel, South Africa and South Korea. Prior to the introduction of the European Arrest Warrant, the Convention governed extradition between member states of the European Union.

There are 4 additional protocols to the convention that vary the conditions signed up to by individual states.[1]

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