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Part One. Article 16 159“9. States Parties shall, subject to their domestic laws, endeavour to expediteextradition procedures and to simplify evidentiary requirements relating thereto inrespect of any offence to which this article applies.“10. Subject to the provisions of its domestic law and its extradition treaties,the requested State Party may, upon being satisfied that the circumstances so warrantand are urgent and at the request of the requesting Party, take a person whose extraditionis sought and who is present in its territory into custody or take other appropriatemeasures to ensure his or her presence at extradition proceedings.“11. [(a) Without prejudice to the exercise of any criminal jurisdiction establishedin accordance with its domestic law, a State Party in whose territory an allegedoffender is found shall, if it does not extradite him or her in respect of an offenceestablished in accordance with articles 3, 4, 4 ter or 17 bis of this Convention and aserious crime involving an organized criminal group and has established its jurisdictionover the offence in accordance with paragraph 3 or 4 of article 9 of thisConvention, be obliged, at the request of the State Party seeking extradition, to submitthe case without undue delay to its competent authorities for the purpose of prosecutionthrough proceedings in accordance with the laws of the State where theoffender is found;]“Option 1“[(a bis) The States Parties concerned shall cooperate with each other, in particularon procedural and evidentiary aspects, to ensure the efficiency of such prosecution;]“Option 2“[(a bis) A State Party that submits a case for prosecution following the denialof extradition on grounds of nationality shall treat the investigation and prosecutionwith diligence, shall devote sufficient resources to conduct the matter effectively andshall coordinate the matter with the requesting State. It shall ensure that its mutualassistance, procedural and evidentiary laws enable effective action to be taken on thebasis of evidence obtained from another State;]“(b) Whenever a State Party is permitted under its domestic law to extradite orotherwise surrender one of its nationals only upon the condition that the person willbe returned to that State to serve the sentence imposed as a result of the trial or proceedingsfor which the extradition or surrender of the person was sought and this Stateand the State seeking the extradition of the person agree with this option and otherterms that they may deem appropriate, such a conditional extradition or surrender shallbe sufficient to discharge the obligation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this paragraph.“12. If extradition, sought for purposes of enforcing a sentence, is refusedbecause the person sought is a national of the requested State Party, the requestedParty shall, if its law so permits and if it is in conformity with the requirement ofsuch law, upon application of the requesting Party, consider the enforcement of thesentence that has been imposed under the law of the requesting Party or the remainderthereof.“13. Any person regarding whom proceedings are being carried out in connectionwith any of the offences covered by this Convention shall be guaranteed fairtreatment at all stages of the proceedings, including enjoyment of all the rights and