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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVIII: Prosecution, investigation and trial of offences committed by legal persons

Article 706-42

…cable when a natural person is also suspected or prosecuted, the following shall have jurisdiction: 1° The public prosecutor and the courts of the place where the offence was committed; 2° The public…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXa: Directory of personal data collected in the context of legal proceedings

Article 706-56-2

…ted for one of the offences for which socio-judicial supervision is incurred, and to prevent the repetition of these offences.The directory centralises all psychiatric, medico-psychological, psycholog…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database

Article 706-56-1

On instruction from the public prosecutor of the place of residence or detention of the person concerned, the DNA fingerprints of persons of French nationality, or of foreign nationality habitually re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVIII: Prosecution, investigation and trial of offences committed by legal persons

Article 706-45

The investigating judge may place the legal entity under judicial supervision under the conditions set out in articles 139 and 140 by subjecting it to one or more of the following obligations:

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-7

…ormation contained in the file shall be directly accessible, via a secure telecommunications system:1° To the judicial authorities;2° To officers of the judicial police, in the context of proceedings…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-4

…om the date of delivery of the decision provided for in the same Article 706-53-2, of a period of : 1° Thirty years in the case of a felony or misdemeanour punishable by ten years' imprisonment; 2° Tw…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVII: Prosecution, investigation and judgment of offences relating to trafficking in human beings, procuring or the use of prostitution of minors

Article 706-36

…judge may provisionally order, for a period of up to three months, the total or partial closure of: 1° An establishment referred to in 1° and 2° of Article 225-10 of the Penal Code, the holder, manage…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVI: Prosecution, investigation and trial of drug trafficking offences

Article 706-32

…sferring narcotics referred to in articles 222-37 and 222-39 of the Penal Code, to identify the perpetrators and accomplices and to carry out the seizures provided for in this Code, officers of the ju…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XV: Prosecution, investigation and trial of acts of terrorism

Article 706-16-2

…er document relating to the criminal proceedings, including those in progress. It may also request: 1° from any person or administration to provide information on the professional, financial, tax or s…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article 706-3

…ull compensation for the damage resulting from personal injury, where the following conditions are met:1° Such injury does not fall within the scope of Article 53 of the Social Security Funding Act fo…

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