Article I Definitions

1. "Judgment" means a final court decision imposing sentence for a committed crime. The term "judgement" shall also include final court decisions imposing death penalty, later substituted for a fixed term of deprivation of liberty or for life imprisonment in Transferring Party by an act of amnesty or pardon.

2. "Sentence" means any punishment imposed by a judgment which includes deprivation of liberty for a fixed term or life imprisonment.

3. "Sentenced person" means a person serving a sentence in the form of deprivation of liberty, imposed by a judgement.

4. "Transferring Party" means a State in which a court has sentenced a person that may be transferred or has been transferred.

5. "Receiving Party" means a State to which the sentenced person may be transferred or has been transferred in order to serve the sentence;

6. "Central authorities" mean the authorities duly authorized by the Parties for implementation of the Treaty.

7. "Competent authorities" mean the authorities duly authorized by each Party for performance of this or that act requested.

8. "Legal representative" means a person or an institution authorized by the legislation of the Party to act in the interests or on behalf of the sentenced person in the respective bodies of that Party.