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CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
Proposal for Resolution No 6/XII
The Portuguese Republic and the Argentine Republic, countries linked by historical links and
solid cultural, have been promoting fruitful cooperation in all areas of their
bilateral relationship, which translates into the approval of legal instruments of diversion
nature.
The Agreement between the Portuguese Republic and the Argentine Republic on the Transfer of
Convicted Persons, signed in Lisbon, on October 6, 2008, is yet another example
of such cooperation, with the object of the promotion and further deepening of cooperation between
Portugal and Argentina in the area of Justice.
The Agreement makes it possible to transfer a convicted person on the territory of one of the
States, with the agreement of this, to the territory of the other in order to fulfill it, or to continue
to comply, a conviction that was imposed on him by sentence carried on trial,
contributing, by this route, to the social reinsertion of the convicted persons.
The transfer application may be requested either by any of the States, or by the
own doomed person, thus allowing nationals of both countries to
fulfillment of deprivative penalty of freedom in its social environment of origin.
This Agreement shall be interpreted and implemented with the safeguard of rights and guarantees
constitutional and legally enshrined and in respect of the fundamental interests of the
Parts.
It is thus of particular importance to proceed with the approval of the Agreement.
Thus:
Under the terms of the paragraph d) of Article 197 (1) of the Constitution, the Government presents to the
Assembly of the Republic the following proposal for a Resolution:
CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
Approve the Agreement between the Portuguese Republic and the Argentine Republic on the
Transfer of Condensed People, signed in Lisbon, on October 6, 2008, whose
text, in its authenticated version, in the Portuguese and Spanish languages, it publishes in attachment.
Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of October 13, 2011
The Prime Minister
The Minister of State and Foreign Affairs
The Deputy Minister and Parliamentary Affairs