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The case concerned a request by North Macedonia for extradition from Italy for the execution of a six-month prison sentence imposed for assault or bodily harm. The requested person did not consent to extradition and argued that surrender should be refused because the bilateral additional agreement between Italy and North Macedonia allowed execution extradition only for certain categories of offences and only where the sentence imposed reached a minimum threshold. The Court of Appeal of Bologna rejected that argument. It held that the limitations contained in the bilateral additional agreement concerned only the extradition of each State’s own nationals: Italian nationals to North Macedonia and North Macedonian nationals to Italy. They did not bar the extradition of the requested person in the case before the Court. The Court further found that the judgment was final, that the required documentation had been transmitted, that double criminality was satisfied, and that no statutory grounds for refusal under Article 705 of the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure were present. It therefore declared that the conditions for extradition to North Macedonia were met.