Article 549^1. Transit
(1) The Republic of Moldova may allow an extradited person to transit its territory if a crime that would allow extradition in line with the legislation of the Republic of Moldova is at issue. Transit shall not be allowed if the person is a citizen of the Republic of Moldova.
(2) Transit shall be granted in the manner provided in art. 545 para. (1), upon the request of the interested state with at least the preventive arrest warrant or the imprisonment punishment execution warrant that justified the extradition attached.
(3) A request for transit shall be resolved by the General Prosecutor’s Office or, as the case may be, by the Ministry of Justice.
(4) The decision of the General Prosecutor’s Office or the Ministry of Justice shall be immediately communicated to the requesting state or, as the case may be, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in view of organizing the supervision of the extradited person’s transit.
(a) A State Party shall authorize, in accordance with its national procedural law, transportation through its territory of a person being surrendered to the Court by another State, except where transit through that State would impede or delay the surrender.
(b) A request by the Court for transit shall be transmitted in accordance with article 87. The request for transit shall contain:
(i) A description of the person being transported;
(ii) A brief statement of the facts of the case and their legal characterization; and
(iii) The warrant for arrest and surrender;
(c) A person being transported shall be detained in custody during the period of transit;
(d) No authorization is required if the person is transported by air and no landing is scheduled on the territory of the transit State;
(e) If an unscheduled landing occurs on the territory of the transit State, that State may require a request for transit from the Court as provided for in subparagraph (b). The transit State shall detain the person being transported until the request for transit is received and the transit is effected, provided that detention for purposes of this subparagraph may not be extended beyond 96 hours from the unscheduled landing unless the request is received within that time.