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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Parole application procedure

Article D527-1

In accordance with the provisions of article 730-2, conditional release may only be granted after a multi-disciplinary assessment of dangerousness, accompanied by a medical examination, when it concer…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Mandatory measures and conditions

Article D533

…subject to conditional release must undergo the supervision measures provided for by article 132-44 of the Penal Code.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Special conditions

Article D539

In accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 731-1 et de l'article R. 61-34, adults may also be placed under mobile electronic surveillance if they have been sentenced to at le…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable to probation with reinforced monitoring

Article D546-4

Where the accused was not present at the hearing, the decision of the sentence enforcement judge provided for in the first paragraph of Article 741-2 must be made within four months of the date on whi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The respective powers of the sentence enforcement judge, the other instructing magistrates and the director of the prison integration and probation service

Article D577

…e appropriate, for each case referred to the service, specific instructions relating to the purpose of the measure and the content of the obligations to be met. The prison integration and probation se…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Transmission of requests, notifications or service by electronic means of telecommunication

Article D591

In accordance with the terms and conditions set out in an agreement between the Ministry of Justice and the national representative organisations of the Bars and Law Societies, the parties' lawyers ma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article D233

…heir observations are recorded in the register presented to them, in accordance with the provisions of article D. 130-1 of the Penitentiary Code.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Health organisation

Article D360

In accordance with the provisions of articles R. 322-5 and D. 215-13 of the French Prison Code, the transfer to a more appropriate prison of remand prisoners who do not benefit, in the prison where th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Mandatory measures and conditions

Article D534

…udge may authorise the parolee to change residence, after consulting the sentence enforcement judge of the jurisdiction in which the convicted person intends to settle and, where release has been gran…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The respective powers of the sentence enforcement judge, the other instructing magistrates and the director of the prison integration and probation service

Article D576

…prosecutor and the other instructing magistrates determine the general guidelines for the execution of measures entrusted to the prison integration and probation service, as well as those relating to…

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