Article 22 Penal provisions

Geldend

Documentgegevens:

Geldend vanaf 16-08-1976

Bronpublicatie:: 21-02-1971, Trb. 1989, 129 (uitgifte: 04-10-1989, kamerstukken/regelingnummer: -)
Inwerkingtreding: 16-08-1976
Bronpublicatie inwerkingtreding:: 21-02-1971, Trb. 1989, 129 (uitgifte: 04-10-1989, kamerstukken/regelingnummer: -)
Vakgebied(en): Internationaal publiekrecht / Verdragenrecht
Internationaal strafrecht / Bijzondere onderwerpen

1

a)

Subject to its constitutional limitations, each Party shall treat as a punishable offence, when committed intentionally, any action contrary to a law or regulation adopted in pursuance of its obligations under this Convention, and shall ensure that serious offences shall be liable to adequate punishment, particularly by imprisonment or other penalty of deprivation of liberty.

b)

Notwithstanding the preceding sub-paragraph, when abusers of psychotropic substances have committed such offences, the Parties may provide, either as an alternative to conviction or punishment or in addition to punishment, that such abusers undergo measures of treatment, education, after-care, rehabilitation and social reintegration in conformity with paragraph 1 of article 20.

2.

Subject to the constitutional limitations of a Party, its legal system and domestic law,

a)

(i): if a series of related actions constituting offences under paragraph 1 has been committed in different countries, each of them shall be treated as a distinct offence;
(ii): intentional participation in, conspiracy to commit and attempts to commit, any of such offences, and preparatory acts and financial operations in connexion with the offences referred to in this article, shall be punishable offences as provided in paragraph 1;
(iii): foreign convictions for such offences shall be taken into account for the purpose of establishing recidivism; and
(iv): serious offences heretofore referred to committed either by nationals or by foreigners shall be prosecuted by the Party in whose territory the offence was committed, or by the Party in whose territory the offender is found if extradition is not acceptable in conformity with the law of the Party to which application is made, and if such offender has not already been prosecuted and judgement given.

b)

It is desirable that the offences referred to in paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 a) (ii) be included as extradition crimes in any extradition treaty which has been or may hereafter be concluded between any of the Parties, and, as between any of the Parties which do not make extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty or on reciprocity, be recognized as extradition crimes; provided that extradition shall be granted in conformity with the law of the Party to which application is made, and that the Party shall have the right to refuse to effect the arrest or grant the extradition in cases where the competent authorities consider that the offence is not sufficiently serious.

3.

Any psychotropic substance or other substance, as well as any equipment, used in or intended for the commission of any of the offences referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be liable to seizure and confiscation.

4.

The provisions of this article shall be subject to the provisions of the domestic law of the Party concerned on questions of jurisdiction.

5.

Nothing contained in this article shall affect the principle that the offences to which it refers shall be defined, prosecuted and punished in conformity with the domestic law of a Party.