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Second Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Extradition

(ETS No. 098)

Open for signature by the member States of the Council of Europe which have signed the Convention, in Strasbourg, on 17 March 1978.

Entry into force: 5 June 1983.

Summary of the treaty

The Second Protocol is designed to facilitate the application of the Convention (ETS No. 024) on several points and aims, in particular, to include fiscal offences among the category of offences for which a person may be extradited under the Convention. This Protocol also contains additional provisions on judgments in absentia and amnesty.