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Article A43-5-1

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force

Updated 5 Nov 2023


Nature of the assignment carried out

Amount of the flat-rate indemnity per assignment

(expressed in units of value)


Amount natural persons

Amount associations

To proceed with the reminder of the obligations resulting from the law in application of 1° of article 41-1 (1)

4 units of value

5 units of value

For the execution of the measures provided for in paragraphs 2° to 4°, 6° to 9° and 11° of article 41-1, including verification of the person's compliance with the undertakings given

7 units of value

12 units of value

For the execution of the measure provided for in 10° of article 41-1

6 units of value

10 units of value

For a mediation assignment pursuant to 5° of article 41-1

-Where the duration of the assignment is less than or equal to one month

14 units of value

27 units of value

-Where the duration of the assignment is greater than one month and less than or equal to three months

51 units of value

-Where the duration of the assignment is greater than three months

102 units of value

For notification of the following measures:

-A probationary sentence, the supervision of the implementation of which is entrusted to the probation service or another authorised person

3 units of value

4 units of value

-A summons to appear in court pursuant to article 390-1

-an ordonnance pénale délictuelle pursuant to article 495-3

-an ordonnance contraventionnelle pursuant to article 527

-an entry in the automated national judicial file of perpetrators of terrorist offences pursuant to article R. 50-38

-registration in the automated national judicial file of perpetrators of sexual or violent offences pursuant to article R. 53-8-9

-l'information de l'absence de reliquat de peine à exécuter du fait des réductions de peines en application de l'article D. 147-13

-a penalty-reparation sentence pursuant to article 12-1 of order no. 45-174 of 2 February 1945, including obtaining the agreement of the minor and the holders of parental authority

-measures ordered as part of a penal composition pursuant to article 41-2, including obtaining the person's consent

7 units of value

12 units of value

For monitoring the execution of the following measures:

-a probationary sentence

6 units of value

12 units of value

-a penalty-repair sentence pursuant to the fourth paragraph of article 131-8-1 of the Criminal Code

-the measures provided for in 1° to 5° and 8° to 12° of article 41-2 proposed as part of a penal composition provided for in article 41-2 (2)

6 units of value

10 units of value

-the measures provided for in 6°, 7° and 13° to 19° of article 41-2 or the measure of reparation of harm proposed as part of a penal composition provided for in article 41-2 (2)

10 units of value

18 units of value

For a mission to represent the public prosecutor pursuant to article D. 15-3

14 units of value

For a half-day duty assignment pursuant to the provisions of article D. 15-3-1

14 units of value

.-(1) The compensation due in respect of the reminder of obligations resulting from the law may not be accumulated with that provided for other assignments, with the exception of the notification of a probationary sentence, the supervision of the implementation of which is entrusted to the integration or probation service or to another authorised person, the measures provided for in articles 390-1,495-3 and 527 as well as the measures provided for in article 12-1 of order no. 45-174 of 2 February 1945.

(2) The cumulative amount due for all enforcement acts carried out as part of a penal composition may not exceed that equivalent to forty units of value.

The amount of the additional indemnity allocated when the assignment concerns a minor is equal to three units of value. This allowance cannot be combined with the assignments provided for in articles 390-1, D. 15-3 and D. 15-3-1.

II.-The public prosecutor's delegate or mediator who has been unable to carry out his duties due to the failure of the interested party to respond to at least two summonses is compensated under the conditions set out in the following table:


For natural persons

-where the compensation corresponding to the completion of the assignment is less than or equal to 4 units of value

2 units of value

-.when the compensation corresponding to the performance of the assignment exceeds 4 units of value

4 units of value

For associations

-when the compensation corresponding to the performance of the assignment is less than or equal to 9 units of value

4 units of value

when the compensation corresponding to the performance of the assignment is greater than 9 units of value

9 units of value
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