In proceedings concerning a European Arrest Warrant, there is no requirement to observe a minimum notice period for informing defence counsel of the hearing for the validation of the arrest, as the need to ensure counsel’s participation must be balanced against the urgency inherent in such proceedings. There is, however, an obligation to provide a translation of the reasoning of the Court of Appeal’s surrender decision into a language known to the requested person only where the person—being a foreign-language speaker who does not understand Italian—makes an express and reasoned request to that effect. In such a case, the time limits for lodging an appeal run from the moment the translated decision is made available to the person concerned.