NATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK CONCERNING THE APPLICATION OF CROSS-BORDER INSTRUMENTS TO PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE 12 2.1. EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT The European Arrest Warrant (EAW) Framework Decision7 was transposed into Lithuanian national law by supplementing the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure with relevant provisions, as well as by adopting the rules for issuing a European warrant and taking over a person (a sub-statutory law). The EAW, its application procedure and conditions are described in Article 91 of the Criminal Code.8 The rules for issuing a EAW and taking a person under an EAW were first approved in 2004, after Lithuania's accession to the European Union. Until 2013, the EAW had been issued by the Ministry of Justice for a suspect or defendant who absconded from pre-trial investigation or trial. Since 2013, this process has been taken over by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Lithuania. In this case, the EAW is issued under the following conditions: – Criminal proceedings have been initiated for an offence provided for in Article 2(2) of Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA of 13th June 2002 on the EAW and surrender procedures between Member States or for another offence 7 Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States (2002/584/ JHA), as amended. 8 Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania, No. VIII-1968, 26 September 2000. Available at: https://bit.ly/40gCcvw.