The European Arrest Warrant is a judicial decision issued by a Member State of the European Union (the issuing Member State) for the arrest and surrender by another Member State (the executing Member State) of a person sought for the purpose of criminal prosecution or the execution of a custodial sentence or detention order.
Le mandat d’arrêt européen est une décision judiciaire émise par un Etat membre de l’Union européenne (l’Etat membre d’émission), en vue de l’arrestation et de la remise par un autre Etat membre (l’Etat membre d’exécution), d’une personne recherchée pour l’exercice de poursuites pénales ou pour l’exécution d’une peine ou d’une mesure de sûreté privatives de liberté.
Extradition is the procedure by which one State, the requested State, agrees to surrender a person located on its territory to another State, the requesting State, which is seeking that person in order to prosecute them for the commission of a crime or an offense, or to enforce a sentence already imposed for such a crime or offense.