Judgment_paragraph 37 · Procureur-generaal v X (C-717/18)

37Accordingly, the executing judicial authority must be able to rely, in the application of Article 2(2) of Framework Decision 2002/584, on the information on the length of the sentence set out in the European arrest warrant itself, in accordance with the form contained in the annex to that framework decision. Given that, in accordance with Article 17(1) of that framework decision, a European arrest warrant must be dealt with and executed as a matter of urgency, the examination of the law of the issuing Member State which that authority is required to conduct in applying that Article 2(2), must necessarily be timely and, accordingly, be carried out on the basis of the information available in the European arrest warrant itself. Requiring that authority to verify, for the purposes of executing that warrant, whether the law of the issuing Member State which is applicable to the facts at issue has not been amended subsequent to the date of those facts would run counter to the purpose of Framework Decision 2002/584 as has been recalled in paragraph 35 of the present judgment.