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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 R50-1

The rules relating to the composition, seat, jurisdiction and territorial competence of the compensation commission for victims of offences provided for by article 706-4 are laid down by the Code of J…

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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 R50-18

The public prosecutor is informed of the date of the hearing and files his submissions at least fifteen days before that date.

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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 R50-20

…re it considers that the case should be referred to another hearing, shall immediately set the date of that hearing. When the parties are neither present nor represented, they are informed of this ref…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Registration in the file

Article R50-36

…ed: 1° Information relating to the person him/herself : a) Surname, first name, sex, date and place of birth, nationality or nationalities and, where applicable, aliases, change of name and customary…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Informing the person entered in the file

Article R50-41

In the cases provided for by 4° of Article 706-25-4, informing the person and providing the document provided for in article R. 50-38 are made, under the conditions set out in the third and fourth par…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Obligations incumbent on the person entered in the file

Article R50-50

The person concerned, of French nationality and residing abroad, who is unable to fulfil the obligations resulting from article 706-25-7 because of the absence of French representation in the foreign…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Request for rectification or deletion

Article R50-55

The competent public prosecutor, pursuant to the provisions of article 706-25-12, to order, at the request of the person concerned, the rectification or deletion of the information contained in the fi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article R50-71

When the situation of the person mentioned in article R. 50-70 seems likely to justify the imposition of a judicial measure to prevent terrorist re-offending and rehabilitation, the Anti-Terrorism Pub…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article R50-79

In the exercise of the powers provided for in the fifth paragraph of I of Article 706-25-16, the Sentence Enforcement Judge of the Paris Judicial Court shall appoint the penitentiary integration and p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IIa: Fixed fine procedure

Article R49-3-1

Payment of the fixed fine or the increased fixed fine may also be made within fifteen days by automated remote payment or by dematerialised stamp, at the end of the periods provided for in the article…

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