12Under the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, opened for signature on 21 March 1983 in Strasbourg (‘the Convention’) and to which declarations of the Republic of Austria have been attached (BGBl. I, 1986, No 524), and Paragraph 76 of the Auslieferungs- und Rechtshilfegesetz (Law applicable in matters of extradition and judicial assistance, ARGH, BGBl. I, 1979, No 529), persons sentenced in the territory of a State signatory to the Convention (sentencing State) may, pursuant to Article 2 thereof, ask to be transferred to their State of origin (administering State) in order to serve the sentence which has been imposed upon them. In so doing, pursuant to Article 9(1)(b) of the Convention, a sanction prescribed by the law of the administering State for the same offence may be substituted for the sanction imposed in the sentencing State.
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