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Law Approving The Second Additional Protocol To The European Convention On Mutual Assistance In Criminal Matters, Done At Strasbourg On 8 November 2001 (1)

Original Language Title: Loi portant assentiment au Deuxième Protocole additionnel à la Convention européenne d'entraide judiciaire en matière pénale, fait à Strasbourg le 8 novembre 2001 (1)

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18 FEBRUARY 2009. - Act enacting the Second Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, done in Strasbourg on 8 November 2001 (1)



As of 5 November 2012, Belgium withdrew the reservation concerning articles 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Second Additional Protocol, which was deposited on the occasion of ratification.
The reservation had as follows:
"With respect to Articles 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Protocol, the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium intends to avail itself of the possibility offered by Article 33, § 2, not to accept the use of border observation, controlled delivery, discrete investigation and joint investigative teams only for the following punishable acts: arms and drugs trafficking, human trafficking, pedophilia and terrorism.
Any use of these four specific research methods in Belgian territory should also be carried out by the only competent Belgian agents.
Pursuant to § 4 of the same articles 17, 18, 19 and 20, the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium declares that the Federal Prosecutor is designated as the competent Belgian judicial authority for the implementation of requests for mutual assistance involving the use of these particular research methods. "
The withdrawal of the reservation takes effect on 5 November 2012.
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(1) (See Belgian Monitor of 19/06/2009, Ed. 2, pages 42823-42839).