Preamble
The member States of the Council of Europe, signatory hereto,
Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve greater unity among
its Members;
Being resolved to take concerted action to combat crime;
Considering that, to this end, they are in duty bound to ensure, in the territory
of the other Contracting Parties, either the social rehabilitation of offenders given
suspended sentences or released conditionally by their own courts, or the enforcement
of the sentence when the prescribed conditions are not fulfilled,