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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-22

…ders, in the light of this information, that he should not maintain the application for recognition and enforcement ; 3° The competent authority of the executing State having communicated, of its own…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-21

When the representative of the public prosecutor is consulted by the competent authority of the executing State on partial recognition of the sentencing decision, he or she shall examine whether an ag…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-20

…c prosecutor may ask the competent authority of that State, when forwarding the sentencing decision and the certificate, to provisionally arrest the sentenced person or to take any measure to ensure t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Consent to prosecution or enforcement of a sentence for another offence

Article 728-27

…allegedly committed before being transferred, other than that for which the request for recognition and enforcement was made, the request shall be referred to the investigating chamber. Where the appl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 771-2

…ny or a misdemeanour punishable by a prison sentence received in the criminal record pursuant to 1° and 8° of Article 768, including in the cases provided for in Article 771, the automated national cr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-29

The convicted person may appeal against the decision authorising the execution of the confiscation in France. The person who holds the property that is the subject of the confiscation order or any oth…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 738-2

Where the father and mother or one of them survives the deceased and the latter has no posterity, they may in all cases exercise a right of reversion, up to the proportional shares fixed in the first…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 775-2

Convicts sentenced to a penalty that cannot give rise to a rehabilitation as of right benefit, upon simple request, from the exclusion of the mention of their conviction from bulletin no. 2, according…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 77-2

…ase file is being made available to their lawyers, or to them if they are not assisted by a lawyer, and that they have the opportunity to make any observations that they consider useful. These observa…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 729-2

…ory by ordering the suspension of the execution of this sentence for the duration of the assistance and supervision measures provided for in l'article 732. At the end of this period, if the conditiona…

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