Procedural aspects: Information and Consent Figure 13: Framework Decision on transfer of prisoners: procedure in issuing state to inform sentenced persons of option to transfer judgments or decisions to another Member State Provided in law Provided in practice No procedure provided No practice established Not implemented/ Implementation pending Note: Bulgaria and Ireland have not implemented the Framework Decision on transfer of prisoners. However, transfer is possible in accordance with the Transfer Convention. Source: FRA, 2015 The European Supervision Order provides, in Article 9 (1), that a decision on supervision measures may be forwarded to the competent authority of the Member State in which the person is lawfully and ordinarily residing, where the person, having been informed about the measures concerned, consents to return to that Member State. Article 9 (2) stipulates that, upon request of the affected person, the decision may be forwarded to a Member State other than the usual place of residence, on condition that authorities of that state consent to this. This chapter focuses on the procedural rights of persons subject to transfer proceedings. It first examines what information relating to the possibility of transfers is made publicly available or provided to suspects/sentenced persons. The chapter then examines the consent procedure and analyses the notion of ‘informed consent’. As stated in Chapter 1, while reading the summary of findings, it should be noted that not all Member States had implemented all three Framework Decisions at the time of data collection. 6.1. Information on the possibility to transfer FRA’s research shows that, in a  majority of the  EU Member States, the only information made publicly available about the Framework Decisions is the legislation implementing its content. Seventeen states make available only the text of the law implementing the Framework Decision (Austria, Belgium,268 Croatia, 268 Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA; Council Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA. 85

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