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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title Ia: Electronically supervised home detention sentence

Article 713-44

…the sentence still to be served. The decision is taken in accordance with the provisions of article 712-6.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 713-3

The certificate must be translated into the official language or one of the official languages of the executing State or into one of the official languages of the institutions of the European Communit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to confiscation orders issued by French courts

Article 713-5

…transmit the decision and the certificate, in accordance with the procedures referred to in Article 713-4, to the competent authority of the competent State or States pursuant to articles 713-6 to 713…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 716-1

The penalty for one day's imprisonment is twenty-four hours. That of one month is thirty days. A sentence of more than one month is calculated from day to day.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-26

Where the location of the property has not been indicated precisely enough in the certificate, the public prosecutor shall consult the competent authority of the issuing State. Where the property ment…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Work release, semi-liberty, temporary absences and escorted absences

Article 723-2

…by the sentence enforcement judge by a decision taken in accordance with the provisions of article 712-6. If the personality of the sentenced person or the means available justify it, the sentence en…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-34

The Public Prosecutor's Office shall terminate the enforcement of the confiscation order as soon as it is informed of any decision or measure that has the effect of depriving the order of its enforcea…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Enforcement of confiscation orders issued by foreign judicial authorities

Article 713-40

The execution on the territory of the Republic of a confiscation order issued by a foreign court entails the transfer to the French State of ownership of the confiscated property, unless otherwise agr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Placement under electronic surveillance

Article 723-8

…tions incumbent on him and may give rise to enforcement of the imprisonment provided for in Article 713-44 or to the withdrawal of the accommodation measure provided for in Article 723-13.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-23

…hapter. This decree specifies the conditions under which the expert opinion provided for by article 712-21 may not be ordered, with the agreement of the public prosecutor, either because of the existe…

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