Under the Convention, each Party acquires competence to enforce a sanction imposed in another Party, provided that the requesting State has submitted a request for enforcement, that under the law of the requested State the act for which the sanction was imposed would be an offence, and that the judgment delivered by a requesting State is final and enforceable.

One of the significant aims of the Convention is to promote the rehabilitation of the offender.

• Appendix I - Reservations.
• Appendix II - List of offences other than offences dealt with under criminal law.
• Appendix III - List of “Ordonnances pénales”.
• Translations sorted by non-official languages.
• Note for information - Accession to the European Convention on the International Validity of Criminal Judgments by a State which is not a member of the Council of Europe.

• Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law - Economic Crime and Cooperation Division
• Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law - European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)