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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article D47-1-13

Instructions ordering the execution of the requested measure shall constitute recognition of the investigation decision and need not be notified to the issuing authority.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article D47-1-14

Where the formalities and procedures expressly indicated by the issuing authority in the European Investigation Order cannot be complied with, the magistrate to whom the matter has been referred shall…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-8

…ed of. It may attach a statement of the facts of the case. When it comes from a Member State of the European Union, the extradition request is sent directly by the competent authorities of that State…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-16

The investigating chamber may, by a decision which is not subject to appeal, authorise the requesting State to intervene at the hearing at which the extradition request is considered, through a person…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-19

Release may be requested at any time from the Investigating Chamber in accordance with the forms set out in articles 148-6 and 148-7. The claimant's lawyer is summoned by registered letter with acknow…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-21

If the person claimed voluntarily evades the obligations of judicial supervision or house arrest under electronic surveillance or if, after having been released without judicial supervision or house a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-10

Any person apprehended following an extradition request must be brought before the territorially competent public prosecutor within forty-eight hours. The articles 63-1 to 63-7 are applicable during t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-20

Release from judicial supervision, house arrest under electronic surveillance or modification thereof may be ordered at any time by the investigating chamber under the conditions set out in Article 19…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-9-1

For the search for a person who is the subject of a request for extradition or provisional arrest for the purposes of extradition, Articles 74-2 and 230-33 are applicable. The powers of the public pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-15

Where the person claimed has declared to the Public Prosecutor that he does not consent to his extradition, the proceedings shall be referred to the Investigating Chamber without delay. The person cla…

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