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Showing 13411350 of 55426 articles for Art. Loi 2023-1059 of 20 November 2023 – justice programming law

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIc: Enforcement of sentences and probation decisions in application of the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 27 November 2008

Article 764-8

The transmission of the sentence or the probation decision, the certificate and all documents relating to the enforcement of the measures, as well as any exchange relating thereto, shall be effected d…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking transactions, payment services, issuance and management of electronic money

Article R754-3

…ble in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in th…

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

Article 696-8

Subject to the provisions of the fourth paragraph, any request for extradition shall be sent to the French government through diplomatic channels and accompanied either by a judgment or a sentence, ev…

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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 696-24-1

For the examination of extradition requests concerning the perpetrators of acts of terrorism, the Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal, the First President of the Paris Court of Appeal and t…

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

Article 696-24

…arrested under the conditions provided for in Article 696-23 shall be released if, within a period of thirty days from the date of his arrest, where this was carried out at the request of the compete…

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

Article 696-19

…estigating 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 acknowledgement of receipt at least forty-eight hours b…

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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

…ht hours. The articles 63-1 to 63-7 are applicable during this period. After verifying the identity of the person claimed, the Public Prosecutor shall inform him, in a language he understands, of the…

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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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