The requirements of concreteness and currency of the risk of absconding in European Arrest Warrant proceedings must be assessed by the court dealing with precautionary measures in light of the specific needs and characteristics of surrender proceedings. Accordingly, it is reasonable to attach weight to the applicant’s unjustified departure from Romanian territory, occurring precisely at the time of the conviction imposed on him, as a factual element from which the risk of future evasion of surrender may be inferred. For the same reasons, it is consistent to ground the finding of a “high” risk of absconding on the very statements made by the requested person during the validation hearing, where he declared that he had participated in the first-instance proceedings but left the country after lodging the appeal and, expressly, that he had moved to Italy—where his mother is established—seeking refuge at a residence considered, in abstract terms, suitable for the application of a non-custodial measure, thereby intending to evade the consequences of criminal proceedings and of a conviction which he considers unjust.