Judgment_paragraph 50 · AV (C-221/19)

50In accordance with that objective, Article 3(1) of that framework decision, read in the light of recital 5, obliges Member States to ensure that, where new criminal proceedings are brought against a person, previous convictions handed down in other Member States against him or her for different facts, in respect of which information has been obtained under applicable instruments on mutual legal assistance or on the exchange of information extracted from criminal records, are taken into account to the extent that previous national convictions are taken into account under national law, and that the legal effects attached to them are equivalent to those attached to previous national convictions, in accordance with national law, whether in relation to questions of fact or questions of substantive or procedural law (see, to that effect, judgments of 21 September 2017, Beshkov, C‑171/16, EU:C:2017:710, paragraph 26, and of 5 July 2018, Lada, C‑390/16, EU:C:2018:532, paragraph 28).