🇮🇹 Italy → 🇦🇱 Albania

Decisions concerning the suspension of surrender of a requested person—where the individual is subject in Italy to criminal proceedings or must serve a sentence in Italy for an offence committed either before or after the one for which extradition has been granted—as well as decisions on temporary surrender or on the execution of the sentence abroad, pertain to the administrative phase falling within the competence of the Minister of Justice, and not to the judicial phase, which concludes with the judgment granting the extradition request. In this respect, it has been held that the existence, within the territory of the State, of criminal proceedings against a foreign national whose extradition has been requested entails the suspension—within the competence of the Minister of Justice—of the execution of the extradition, but does not preclude a favourable determination by the Italian judicial authority on the request of the foreign government.