Translation of "caractère relatif à la peine " (French → English) :

147. Calls on the EU to use multilateral fora, such as the UN Commission on Human Rights, to encourage states to ratify and comply with international human rights instruments that deal with the death penalty, and to continue its practice of presenting a resolution at the UNCHR to abolish the death penalty, impose a moratorium on all executions and call upon retentionist states to respect minimum standards established by the UN;

144. Calls on the EU to use multilateral fora, such as the UN Commission on Human Rights, to encourage states to ratify and comply with international human rights instruments that deal with the death penalty, and to continue its practice of presenting a resolution at the UNCHR to abolish the death penalty, impose a moratorium on all executions and call upon retentionist states to respect minimum standards established by the UN;

the relevant international legal instruments, in particular the United Nations Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the European Convention on Human Rights and especially Protocol 6 of the ECHR on the death penalty, as well as the Geneva Convention on refugee status (1951),

the relevant international legal instruments, in particular the United Nations Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the European Convention on Human Rights and especially Protocol 6 of the ECHR on the death penalty, as well as the Geneva Convention on refugee status (1951),

First, as was seen in the section on approximation of alternative sanctions, there are considerable differences regarding their function and their legal nature: in some Member States, certain alternative sanctions are principal or substitute penalties, whereas in others, the same penalties are measures accompanying suspended prison sentences.

2. if the offence on the basis of which the European arrest warrant has been issued is punishable by custodial life sentence or life-time detention order, the execution of the said arrest warrant may be subject to the condition that the issuing Member State has provisions in its legal system for a review of the penalty or measure imposed, on request or at the latest after 20 years, or for the application of measures of clemency to which the person is entitled to apply for under the law or practice of the issuing Member State, aiming at a non-execution of such penalty or measure.