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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Request for rectification or deletion

Article R50-61

If the requests provided for in article 706-25-12, the public prosecutor shall inform the department managing the file of the decision, which shall proceed without delay, depending on the case, to era…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Common provisions

Article R50-66

The magistrates of the public prosecutor's office and any public prosecutor's office official authorised by the public prosecutor exercise the powers granted to this magistrate for the application of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article R50-76

The Paris Sentence Enforcement Court will refer the matter to the penitentiary integration and probation service with territorial jurisdiction over the place of detention of the person concerned, whic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XV: Prosecution, investigation and trial of acts of terrorism

Article R50-29

For the application of Article 706-24, there is kept, at the General Prosecutor's Office of the Paris Court of Appeal, a listed and initialled register in which are recorded the authorisations to iden…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Registration in the file

Article R50-35

Authorised police officers or gendarmerie units and authorised officers of the departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development shall record in the file proof of address or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Search of the file and direct information to the Ministry of the Interior

Article R50-53

During searches, the identities consulted also include the result of the verification carried out by the department managing the file in accordance with article 706-25-5 using information communicated…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Keeping a record of queries and consultations

Article R50-63

The file shall retain for a period of three years information relating to the recordings and interrogations to which it is subject, specifying the capacity of the person or authority who carried out t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article R50-1

The rules relating to the composition, seat, jurisdiction and territorial competence of the compensation commission for victims of offences provided for by article 706-4 are laid down by the Code of J…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article R50-18

The public prosecutor is informed of the date of the hearing and files his submissions at least fifteen days before that date.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article R50-20

At the hearing, the commission, where it considers that the case should be referred to another hearing, shall immediately set the date of that hearing. When the parties are neither present nor represe…

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