RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW On ratification of the European Convention on the Transfer of the Criminal Procedure Code of 15 May 1972 Adopted by the State Duma 3 October 2007 approved by the Federation Council on 17 October 2007 ratify the European Convention on the Transfer of Proceedings in Criminal Matters of 15 May 1972, signed on behalf of the Russian Federation in the city Strasbourg on 11 December 2000 (hereinafter referred to as the Convention) with the following reservations: (1) The Russian Federation, in accordance with paragraph "g" of Annex I to the Convention, reserves the right not to apply articles 30 and 31 of the Convention in respect of an act sanctioned by the law of another Contracting Party. States may be imposed only by an administrative body; (2) The Russian Federation declares, in accordance with paragraph (h) of Annex I to the Convention, that it will apply Part V of the Convention to the extent that it is not inconsistent with the principle of the inadmissibility of retrial for the same crime, and also with the following statements: 1) The Russian Federation understands that the provisions of article 8 of the Convention will be applied in the light of the terminology used in the criminal procedural legislation of the Russian Federation. With regard to the suspect and the accused; (2), the Russian Federation understands that the provisions of article 11 of the Convention and paragraph (a) of Annex I to the Convention should be applied in such a way as to ensure the inevitability Commission on the Rights of the The Russian Federation declares, in accordance with article 13, paragraph 3, of the Convention, that the Office of the Procurator-General shall be demolished in connection with the transfer of criminal proceedings to the designated authorities of the Contracting States. OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Russian Federation). The Russian Federation does not have the concept of a "political offence" used in article 11, paragraph (d), and article 30, paragraph 1, of the Convention. In all cases, when deciding on the transfer of criminal proceedings, the Russian Federation shall not, on the basis of reciprocity with the requesting Contracting State, treat as offences of a political nature, the following acts: (a) crimes against humanity, as provided for in articles II and III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948, articles II and III of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid of 30 November 1973 and articles 1 and 4 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 10 December 1984; b) offences set out in article 50 of the Geneva Convention for the Ameliation of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in the of 12 August 1949, article 51 of the Geneva Convention for the Ameliorating the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecks of Armed Forces at Sea, of 12 August 1949, article 130 of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1949, article 147 of the Geneva Convention on the Protection Civil society during the war of 12 August 1949, article 85 of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), of 8 June 1977 1 and 4 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) of 8 June 1977; (c) the offences set out in the Convention Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft of 16 December 1970 Combating illegal acts against the safety of civil aviation, of 23 September 1971 and the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, of 24 February 1988, supplementing the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, of 23 September 1971; g) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Persons, Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, of 14 December 1973 (d) The offences set out in the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism of 27 January 1977; (e) the offences set out in the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages of 17 December 1979; (g) The offences set forth in the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material of 3 March 1980; (c) the offences set forth in the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Traffic. of 10 March 1988 and the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the against the safety of fixed platforms located on the continental shelf of 10 March 1988; and) the offences set forth in the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel of 9 December 1994; crimes under the International Convention for the Suppression of the terrorist acts of 15 December 1997; m) of the offences set out in the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism of 9 December 1999; . The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime of 15 November 2000 and its Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Special for women and children, and to punish them; o) other comparable crimes, in the multilateral international treaties to which the Russian Federation is a party. President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin Moscow, Kremlin 30 October 2007 N 237-FZ
