TITLE I
General Provisions

Conditions
§ 4. There shall be compliance with the conditions that another State imposes on the occasion of granting an extradition, transit or surrender, when providing judicial assistance, or in connection with taking over a case for criminal prosecution, surveillance, or execution, and which were not rejected.

TITLE II
Extradition from Austria

Chapter ONE
Admissibility of Extradition

Surrender of Objects
§ 25. (1) In connection with an extradition, it shall be admissible to surrender objects that may be used as evidence or which the person to be extradited has obtained from the punishable act or from realizing objects originating from said act.

(2) If an extradition cannot be granted that would be admissible pursuant to the provisions of this federal law, because the person to be extradited has absconded or is deceased or could not be apprehended in Austria, objects may nevertheless be surrendered on the basis of a request for extradition or a separate request.

(3) The surrender of objects for the purposes of evidence may be granted with the proviso that these objects will be returned immediately on request.

(4) Surrender shall be inadmissible in any event if there is reason to suspect that it would frustrate or disproportionately complicate prosecution or the exercise of rights of third parties.

TITLE II
Extradition from Austria

CHAPTER TWO
Jurisdiction and Procedure

Local Jurisdiction and Jurisdiction over the Subject Matter
§ 26. (1) The public prosecutor shall conduct the extradition proceedings, applying the provisions of Part 1 and 2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in analogy. The public prosecutor in whose district the person concerned has his/her domicile or residence shall have local jurisdiction. In the absence of such a location, the public prosecutor shall have local jurisdiction in whose district the person was apprehended. If the person concerned is kept in court confinement, the place of confinement shall determine local jurisdiction. If no specific public prosecutor can be determined when applying the present provisions, the public prosecutor’s office in Vienna shall have local jurisdiction.

(2) The court decisions in extradition proceedings shall be taken by a single judge of the regional court (§ 31 (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure) where the public prosecutor’s office is located that conducts the extradition proceedings.

(3) The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) shall also apply to the surrender of objects in connection with an extradition (extradition of objects).. The public prosecutor in whose district the object to be surrendered is located shall have jurisdiction over the examination of a separate request for the surrender of objects.

TITLE II
Extradition from Austria

CHAPTER TWO
Jurisdiction and Procedure

Searches
§ 27. (1) Requests received for imposing detention pending extradition shall be examined by the public prosecutor in order to establish whether there are sufficient grounds to assume that the underlying act gives rise to an extradition. If these prerequisites are met, the public prosecutor’s office shall order the search measures stipulated in Title 9 of the Code of Criminal Procedure or, if necessary, order the arrest of the sought person.

(2) A public prosecutor need not be seized in connection with a request received by way of a computer-assisted search system, by way of the International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL – or by way of any other official international criminal police assistance system if there are no grounds to assume that the sought person is staying in Austria and if the request only gives rise to search measures that do not require any public announcement (§ 169 (2) second sentence of the Code of Criminal Procedure).

TITLE VI
Obtaining Extradition, Transit, Delivery, Judicial Assistance, as well as Taking Over the Prosecution of a Case, Surveillance and Execution

CHAPTER TWO
Obtaining Judicial Assistance

Prerequisites and Procedures
§ 71. (1) Requests for judicial assistance shall be directed, by way of the established channels of communication, to the foreign court, the foreign public prosecutor’s office, or the authority engaged in the execution of punishments or measures in whose district the act of judicial assistance is to be performed. The request shall comprise the facts underlying the proceedings and other information as required for appropriate processing.

(2) Unless direct judicial assistance exchanges are in place, the Federal Minister of Justice may refrain from forwarding a request for judicial assistance for one of the reasons listed in § 2 and § 3 (1).

Part 2
Specific provisions

Section 2

14. Judicial assistance and procedural provisions for the execution of requests

1. Judicial assistance shall be provided to the International Criminal Court in accordance with the legislation in force governing judicial assistance in criminal matters.
2. Requests from the International Criminal Court for compliance with certain formal provisions shall be executed when these are compatible with the principles of Austrian criminal procedure. Audio and video recording and transmission of the assistance process shall be permitted whenever sought by the International Criminal Court.
3. Members and investigators of the International Criminal Court and others involved in the proceedings and their legal representatives may be authorised, at the Court’s request, to be present at and participate in the assistance process. To this end, they shall be informed of the time and place of the execution of assistance activities.
4. A request from the International Criminal Court for criminal police investigations or information may also be executed without any referral to national courts via the Federal Ministry of the Interior pursuant to Austrian law.