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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article 706-25-16

I.-Where a person has been sentenced to an unsuspended custodial sentence of five years or more for one or more of the offences referred to in Articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Criminal Code, excluding t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-22-1

The sentenced person may challenge the decision of the representative of the public prosecutor's office before the president of the enforcement division of the court of appeal: 1° To automatically for…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-22-1

When a person placed under the supervision of the sentence enforcement judge has been convicted of a crime or an offence mentioned in article 706-47, this judge may, ex officio or at the request of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-2-7

If the person against whom a warrant of committal with deferred effect has been issued fails, without legitimate reason, to appear before the public prosecutor or at the prison on the date set for his…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Inter-regional centres specialising in environmental and public health offences

Article 706-2-1

The public prosecutor at the court of appeal within whose jurisdiction a court with jurisdiction under Article 706-2, in consultation with the other public prosecutors in the inter-regional jurisdicti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-11

Any person providing proof of their identity shall, upon request to the public prosecutor at the judicial court in whose jurisdiction they reside, be provided with all the information concerning them…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXI: Witness protection

Article 706-62-2

Without prejudice to the application of Article 706-58, in the event of proceedings relating to a felony or misdemeanour mentioned in articles 628,706-73 and 706-73-1, where the hearing of a person re…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L322-26-7

I.-Options may be granted under the same conditions as in articles L. 225-177 to L. 225-179 and L. 22-10-56 of the French Commercial Code by a company controlled, directly or indirectly, exclusively o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-16-2

If there is a risk that the convicted person may find himself in the presence of the victim or the civil party and if, in view of the nature of the offences or the personality of the person concerned,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-17-2

For the trial of misdemeanours and felonies falling within the scope of Article 706-16, the First President of the Paris Court of Appeal may, on the recommendation of the Public Prosecutor, after cons…

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