French Customs Code
In force1. Confiscated or abandoned items are disposed of or destroyed by the customs department in accordance with the conditions laid down by order of the Minister of the Economy and Finance when the confiscation judgement has become final, or, in the event of a judgement by default, when provisional execution has been ordered by the confiscation judgement, or after ratification of the abandonment agreed by settlement.
2. However, judgments and orders relating to the confiscation of goods seized from unknown individuals and abandoned and unclaimed by them shall not be enforced until one month after they have been posted both at the door of the office and at that of the judicial court; after this period, no application for recovery shall be admissible.
3. When goods that do not comply with the obligations set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 206/2009 of 5 March 2009 on the introduction into the Community of personal consignments of products of animal origin and amending Regulation (EC) No 136/2004 are destroyed either pursuant to Article 389a of this Code or after they have been abandoned or confiscated, the costs of destruction may be charged to the owner, importer, exporter, declarant or any person involved in the transport of these goods.
These costs are determined according to a scale established by order of the Minister responsible for customs.
