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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Enforcement of prison sentences

Article 627-20

If the sentenced person applies for work release, semi-liberty, reduction of sentence, splitting or suspension of sentence, home detention under electronic monitoring or conditional release, the appli…

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

Article 689-4

For the application of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, opened for signature in Vienna and New York on 3 March 1980, may be prosecuted and tried under the conditions laid…

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

Article 689-7

For the application of the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, done at Montreal on 24 February 1988, supplementary to the Conven…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Execution of the investigation decision

Article 694-38

…le to obtain the information requested by the issuing authority. However, subject to the provisions of Article 694-31 and Article 694-34, it must always grant the requests provided for in Article 694-…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 647-4

In the event that the defendant intends to make use of the document alleged to be false, the first president must refer the parties to appeal before such court as he may designate in order to proceed,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title V: Judges' rules

Article 657

…investigating judges, belonging to the same court or to different courts, are simultaneously seised of the same offence, the public prosecutor may, in the interests of the proper administration of jus…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title V: Judges' rules

Article 659

All other conflicts of jurisdiction are referred to the Criminal Division of the Cour de cassation, which is seised by application of the public prosecutor or the parties. The Cour de cassation may al…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Trial of offences committed in court

Article 678

…the court or tribunal, after having the perpetrator arrested, questions him and draws up a report of the facts; this court transmits the documents and orders the perpetrator to be brought immediatel…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Prosecution and jurisdiction

Article 692

…rson who can prove that he or she has been finally tried abroad for the same acts and, in the event of conviction, that the sentence has been served or is time-barred.

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

Article 694-2

…utual assistance from foreign judicial authorities shall be executed by the public prosecutor or by officers or agents of the judicial police requested for this purpose by that magistrate. They shall…

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