SCHEDULE 5THE CONVENTION RELATING TO EXTRADITION BETWEEN MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (“THE 1996 CONVENTION”)

ARTICLE 5POLITICAL OFFENCES

1

For the purposes of applying this Convention, no offence may be regarded by the requested Member State as a political offence, as an offence connected with a political offence or an offence inspired by political motives.

2

Each Member State may, when giving the notification referred to in Article 18(2), declare that it will apply paragraph 1 only in relation to:

a

the offences referred to in Articles 1 and 2 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, and

b

offences of conspiracy or association — which correspond to the description of behaviour referred to in Article 3(4) — to commit one or more of the offences referred to in Articles 1 and 2 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism.

3

The provisions of Article 3(2) of the European Convention on Extradition and of Article 5 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism remain unaffected.

4

Reservations made under Article 13 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism shall not apply to extradition between Member States.