51First, Article 23(4) of Framework Decision 2002/584 constitutes an exception to the executing judicial authority’s obligation to ensure the surrender of the requested person as soon as possible, contained in Article 23(1) of that framework decision. It would therefore be contrary both to the wording of Article 23(4) of that framework decision, which refers to the ‘temporary’ nature of the postponement of the surrender, and to the general scheme of that article for an executing judicial authority to be able to defer the surrender of a requested person for a considerable or even indefinite period of time in order to avoid such a risk materialising. Moreover, in such a situation, the requested person could remain indefinitely subject to the European arrest warrant issued against him or her and any coercive measures adopted, as the case may be, by the executing Member State, even though there is no realistic prospect that that person will be surrendered to the issuing Member State.
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