CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

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Proposal for Resolution No 95 /XII

Portugal has been strengthening international judicial cooperation in criminal matters with the

Argentina, Brazil and Spain, iber-American countries with which it is linked

by solid historical and cultural links, seeking, in particular, to deepen the

mechanisms of coordinated fight against cross-border crime and impunity.

With that goal, the governments of Portugal, Argentina, Brazil and Spain

signed, in Santiago de Compostela, on November 3, 2010, an Agreement on

Simplified extradition.

This Agreement approves a simplified procedure of extradition of persons claimed

for the purpose of criminal procedure or for compliance with a penalty that has been

imposed by the practice of a crime that admits extradition, enabling, by this route,

streamline your springboard, reduce difficulties and simplify the rules governing the

operation of such procedures between the Parties.

This Agreement shall be open to the accession of other member countries of the Conference of

Ministers of Justice of Ibero-American Countries.

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 motion for a resolution:

CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

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Approve the Agreement on Extradition Simplified between the Argentine Republic, the Republic

Federative of Brazil, the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic, signed in Santiago

of Compostela, on November 3, 2010, the text of which, in its authenticated versions in the

Portuguese and Spanish languages, it publishes in annex.

Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of October 2, 2014

The Prime Minister

The Minister of State and Foreign Affairs

The Minister of the Presidency and Parliamentary Affairs