The European Union Extradition Regulations 2002

ARTICLE 5 POLITICAL OFFENCES

1.  For the purposes of applying this Convention, no offence may be regarded by the requested Member State as a political offence, as an offence connected with a political offence or an offence inspired by political motives.

2.  Each Member State may, when giving the notification referred to in Article 18(2), declare that it will apply paragraph 1 only in relation to:

(a) the offences referred to in Articles 1 and 2 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, and

(b) offences of conspiracy or association — which correspond to the description of behaviour referred to in Article 3(4) — to commit one or more of the offences referred to in Articles 1 and 2 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism.

3.  The provisions of Article 3(2) of the European Convention on Extradition and of Article 5 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism remain unaffected.

4.  Reservations made under Article 13 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism shall not apply to extradition between Member States.