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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Procedure in the event of an appeal

Article 712-14

The decisions of the enforcement judge and the enforcement court are provisionally enforceable. However, where the public prosecutor's appeal is lodged within twenty-four hours of notification, it sus…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Jurisdiction and procedure before courts of first instance

Article 712-4

Measures falling within the jurisdiction of the sentence enforcement judge are granted, modified, deferred, refused, withdrawn or revoked by order or reasoned judgment of this magistrate acting ex off…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable before the criminal court

Article 706-133

If it considers that the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 122-1 of the Penal Code are applicable, the criminal court shall render a judgment declaring the person not criminally responsible…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXXIII: Procedure applicable in the event of a collective accident

Article 706-178

…vestigating judge and the specialised correctional panel of the judicial court mentioned in Article 706-176 exercise, throughout the jurisdiction determined pursuant to that same article, concurrent j…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable before the criminal court

Article 706-134

The provisions of Article 706-133 are applicable before the Criminal Appeals Chamber. They are also applicable, with the exception of 4°, before the Police Court.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Tasks of the agency

Article 706-159

The Agence de gestion et de recouvrement des avoirs saisis et confisqués (Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets) is a public administrative body under the joint autho…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 707-6

…l circumstances. This increase does not apply when fines are increased pursuant to articles L. 211-27 and L. 421-8 of the Insurance Code.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIX: Special seizures

Article 706-141

This Title shall apply, in order to ensure the enforcement of the additional penalty of confiscation under the conditions defined in article 131-21 du code pénal, to seizures carried out in applicatio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-172

In the cases provided for by articles 706-169 à 706-171, the committal order or arrest warrant remains enforceable; the acts of prosecution or investigation and the formalities carried out before the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 706-174

For the trial of defendants who have reached the age of majority, the rules relating to the composition and operation of the assize court are set out in article 698-6.

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