Council of Europe Experts Discuss Double (Dual) Criminality in the Context of Extradition

The double (dual) criminality requirement has been discussed at the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Experts on the Operation of European Conventions in the Penal Field (PC-OC) for several years. Most recently, the Committee held special session on extradition in Strasbourg on May 20, 2014. Workshop 1 was devoted to the application of the double (dual) criminality principle. The debate was based on a discussion paper prepared by the moderator, Mr. Yitzchak Blum (Israel).[2]