33Furthermore, as the Court has previously found, it is clear from the wording of Article 4(6) of Framework Decision 2002/584, in particular from the word ‘may’, that, where a Member State chooses to transpose that provision into domestic law, the executing judicial authority must, nevertheless, have a margin of discretion as to whether or not it is appropriate to refuse to execute the European arrest warrant. In that regard, that authority must take into consideration the objective of the ground for optional non-execution set out in that provision, which, according to the Court’s settled case-law, means enabling the executing judicial authority to give particular weight to the possibility of increasing the requested person’s chances of reintegrating into society when the sentence imposed on him expires (see judgment of 29 June 2017, Popławski, C‑579/15, EU:C:2017:503, paragraph 21 and the case-law cited).
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