In the event of prosecution by summons provided for in Article 390 or summons provided for in article 390-1, the parties’ lawyers may consult the case file at the registry of the judicial court as soon as the summons has been issued or no later than two months after the summons has been served.
At their request, the parties or their lawyer may be issued with copies of the documents in the case file. If the case file has been digitised, this copy shall be provided in digitised form, if necessary by a means of telecommunication in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 803-1. The copy is issued within one month of the request. However, in the event of a court summons and if the request is made less than one month after notification of the summons, the copy will be issued no later than two months after such notification. The issue of the first copy of each document in the file is free of charge.