The order by which the president of the judicial court or the judge delegated by him decides to homologate the proposed sentence or sentences is motivated by the findings, on the one hand, that the person, in the presence of his lawyer, acknowledges the acts of which he is accused and accepts the sentence or sentences proposed by the public prosecutor, and on the other hand, that this sentence or these sentences are justified with regard to the circumstances of the offence and the personality of its perpetrator.
The order has the effect of a sentencing judgement. It is immediately enforceable. When the sanctioned sentence is a firm prison sentence, the person is, according to the distinctions provided for in the second paragraph of article 495-8, either immediately incarcerated in a remand centre, or summoned before the sentence enforcement judge, to whom the order is then transmitted without delay.
In all cases, it may be appealed by the sentenced person, in accordance with the provisions of articles 498,500,502 and 505. The public prosecutor may lodge an incidental appeal under the same conditions. Failing this, it has the effect of a judgment that has become res judicata.
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