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Showing 54915500 of 34625 articles for Art. 202 ter · CAA Paris 3 October 2019

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Transmission and execution of requests for mutual assistance

Article 694-3

Requests for mutual assistance from foreign judicial authorities shall be executed in accordance with the procedural rules provided for by this Code. However, if the request for mutual assistance so s…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 647-3

The defendant must reply, within fifteen days, whether or not he intends to make use of the document alleged to be false.This declaration shall be served on the plaintiff.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-3

For the application of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, signed in Strasbourg on 27 January 1977, and of the Agreement between the Member States of the European Communities on t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Joint investigation teams

Article 695-3

…o a joint investigation team may carry out operations prescribed by the team leader, throughout the territory of the State in which they are operating, within the limits of the powers granted to them…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Conditions for extradition

Article 696-3

…nalties under the law of the requesting State, when the maximum prison sentence incurred, under the terms of that law, is equal to or greater than two years, or, in the case of a convicted person, whe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-39

…ered, if for thirty days from the date of his final release he has had the opportunity to leave the territory of that State.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-36

…rnment shall be null and void if it has taken place outside the conditions provided for in this chapter. Immediately after the extradited person is taken into custody, the public prosecutor shall noti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-37

The courts referred to in Article 696-36 shall judge the characterisation given to the acts which gave rise to the extradition request.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-38

…or in respect of earlier acts, unless, within thirty days of his release, he is arrested on French territory.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 697-3

The territorial jurisdiction of the courts mentioned in Article 697 shall be determined in accordance with Articles 43,52,382 and 663. The courts of the place of posting or landing also have jurisdict…

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