Chapter III
Recognition and Enforcement of Judicial Decisions

Part Four
Enforcement of Pecuniary Sanctions

Subdivision One
Enforcement of Decisions Taken by Other Member States

Prerequisites
§ 53. (2) The following shall be considered to decisions pursuant to para. 1:
1. the decision of another judicial authority, especially of a public prosecutor,
if the person concerned was given the opportunity of bringing the matter
before a court that also has criminal-law competences, as well as
2. the decision of a court that also has criminal-law competences which was seized with an appeal against a decision that was taken by another than a judicial authority for a punishable act, administrative trespass or breach of

(3) A pecuniary sanction shall be
1. financial penalties,
2. an obligation imposed by the same decision to pay compensation to the victim, if the victim did not have the possibility to submit civil-law claims in the course of the proceedings and the court took action by exercising its criminal-law competences,
3. the obligation to refund the costs of the proceedings leading to the decision, or
4. an obligation imposed in the same decision to pay an amount of money into a public account or to an organization supporting victims.

Orders relating to property rights as well as court decisions on private-law claims
shall not be considered to be pecuniary sanctions (§ 2 item 11).