The representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the court which handed down the sentencing decision shall be competent to forward to the competent authority of another Member State of the European Union, for the purpose of having that decision recognised and enforced, a copy of the decision and, after having drawn up and signed it, the certificate provided for in Article 728-12.
He may make this transmission at the request of the competent authority of the executing State.
Subject to Article 728-22-1, it may also carry out this transfer on its own initiative or at the request of the person concerned.
It may decide on the transfer where the conditions laid down in Article 728-11 are met and it is satisfied that enforcement of the sentence in the territory of the other Member State will facilitate the social rehabilitation of the person concerned.