With a view to obtaining supplementary information as referred to in Article 13 of the European Convention on Extradition and Article 12 of the Benelux Extradition Treaty, with regard to: (a) extradition requests emanating from the Netherlands: the authorities referred to in the declaration by the requested Member State may make requests directly to the judicial authority referred to in the Netherlands extradition request, which may also provide the information requested directly, and (b) extradition requests addressed to the Netherlands: the Netherlands judicial authorities which are responsible for dealing with the extradition request may, in urgent cases, make requests directly to the authorities referred to in the declaration by the requesting Member State. The Netherlands judicial authorities as referred to in (b) are the public prosecutor at the District Court who is responsible for dealing with the request for extradition and the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the State Council of the Netherlands (Hoge Raad der Nederlanden).