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).
1. Les États Parties font exécuter les peines d'amende et les mesures de confiscation ordonnées par la Cour en vertu du chapitre VII, sans préjudice des droits des tiers de bonne foi et conformément à la procédure prévue par leur législation interne.
2. Lorsqu'un État Partie n'est pas en mesure de donner effet à l'ordonnance de confiscation, il prend des mesures pour récupérer la valeur du produit, des biens ou des avoirs dont la Cour a ordonné la confiscation, sans préjudice des droits des tiers de bonne foi.
3. Les biens, ou le produit de la vente de biens immobiliers ou, le cas échéant, d'autres biens, obtenus par un État Partie en exécution d'un arrêt de la Cour sont transférés à la Cour.