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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28-1

I.-Category A and B customs officers, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28-3

I.-Category A and B environmental inspectors competent to investigate and record environmental offences pursuant to Article L. 172-1 of the Environment Code assigned to the French Biodiversity Office,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41-2

…authorised person, a penal composition to a natural person who admits having committed one or more offences punishable as a principal penalty by a fine or a prison sentence of up to five years, as we…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 56-2

Searches of the premises of a press company, an audiovisual communication company, an online public communication company, a press agency, the professional vehicles of these companies or agencies or t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 61-2

…him or by his legal representative if he is a minor, or, at his request, appointed by the President of the Bar. The victim is informed of this right before the confrontation takes place. They are also…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 62-2

Police custody is a measure of constraint decided by a judicial police officer, under the supervision of the judicial authority, whereby a person against whom there are one or more plausible grounds f…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 63-2

…on placed in police custody may, at their request, have a person with whom they usually live or one of their direct relatives or one of their brothers or sisters informed by telephone of the measure t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 76-2

The public prosecutor or, with his authorisation, the officer or agent of the judicial police may carry out the operations provided for by Article 55-1.The provisions of the last four paragraphs of Ar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 75-2

The judicial police officer conducting a preliminary investigation into a crime or misdemeanour notifies the public prosecutor as soon as a person against whom there is evidence giving rise to a presu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 74-2

Officers of the judicial police, assisted where necessary by agents of the judicial police, may, on the instructions of the public prosecutor, carry out the acts provided for in the Articles 56 to 62…

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