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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to asset freezing orders issued by the French judicial authorities

Article 695-9-8

…with his certificate, to the judicial authority of the executing State, in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 695-9-6. In other cases, the decision and the certificate are forwarded b…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: The national member of Eurojust

Article 695-8-1

For the requirements connected with the performance of his duties, the national member of the Eurojust Agency shall have access, under the same conditions as prosecuting magistrates, to data contained…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: The national member of Eurojust

Article 695-8-3

The national member shall be competent to receive and forward to the competent public prosecutor information relating to the investigations of the European Anti-Fraud Office to which it is a party.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: The national member of Eurojust

Article 695-8-2

I. - The national member shall be informed by the public prosecutor, the public prosecutor or the investigating judge of ongoing investigations or proceedings and of convictions relating to cases that…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: The national member of Eurojust

Article 695-8-4

As the competent national authority, the national member may receive and transmit, as appropriate, to the competent authorities of the other Member States or to the French judicial authorities any req…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: The national member of Eurojust

Article 695-8-5

…eeting organised by the Eurojust Agency, to be necessary for the effectiveness of investigations conducted on the territory of several Member States;3° Operations to monitor the routing or transport o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-8

Any person whose identity is recorded in the file is informed of this by the judicial authority either by personal notification, or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt sent to the las…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Surveillance

Article 706-80-2

…shall notify the public prosecutor's office in advance, deliver or issue these objects, goods or products in place of postal service providers and freight operators, without being criminally liable. O…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Surveillance

Article 706-80-1

…investigation. As part of an operation to monitor the routing or transport of objects, goods or products derived from the commission of one of the offences falling within the scope of the same articl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Police custody

Article 706-88-1

…tion make this imperative, the juge des libertés may, exceptionally and in accordance with the procedures set out in the second paragraph of Article 706-88, decide that the current police custody of a…

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