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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Courts for the enforcement of sentences

Article D49-79

In urgent cases, the Paris enforcement judge may rule without the opinion of the competent enforcement judge pursuant to article 712-10.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article D49-84

…nce enforcement judge may order that he or she be imprisoned for the duration of the sentence imposed. If the summons to appear before the prison integration and probation service has not been given t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article D52-1

…ut delay, in original or copy and by any means, to the judicial authority for which they are intended. The provisions of this article shall also apply to notifications which the head of the establishm…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Reductions in sentence provided for by article 721

Article D116-8

…inal record pursuant to 5° of article R. 69 specifies the total duration of the withdrawal(s) ordered..

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Permission to leave

Article D143-5

…casion of the serious illness or death of a member of their close family, or the birth of their child.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 10: Compulsory release

Article D147-21

The prison integration and probation service will forward its opinion on the most appropriate measure and on the obligations and prohibitions likely to be imposed to the sentence enforcement judge in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article D527-3

…for which the person whose dangerousness the commission is charged with assessing has been convicted.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: General conditions of detention

Article D147-51

The withdrawal decision taken pursuant to the sixth paragraph of I and the third paragraph of II of

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XII: General provisions

Article D589-3

An electronic signature shall be validly affixed only by the use of a process that enables the signatory to be identified, guarantees the link between the signature and the document to which it relate…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: General conditions of detention

Article D147-47

The sentence enforcement judge of the jurisdiction in which the person subject to monitoring pursuant to I of article 721-2 has his habitual residence, assisted by the prison integration and probation…

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