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Article 695-9-33 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If there are reasons to assume that a Member State holds information falling within the scope of Article 695-9-31 useful for the prevention of an offence or for investigations to establish proof thereof or to track down the perpetrators, the services and units referred to in the same Article may request that it be passed on to the competent services of that State.

The request for transmission shall set out the reasons for assuming that the information is held by those services. It shall specify the purposes for which the information is requested and, where the information relates to a specific person, the link between that person and the purposes of the request.

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Article 695-9-33
S’il existe des raisons de supposer qu’un Etat membre détient des informations entrant dans les prévisions de l’article 695-9-31 utiles à la prévention d’une infraction ou aux investigations tendant à en établir la preuve ou à en rechercher les auteurs, les services et unités mentionnés au même article peuvent en solliciter la transmission auprès des services compétents de cet Etat.


La demande de transmission expose les raisons laissant supposer que les informations sont détenues par ces services. Elle précise à quelles fins les informations sont demandées et, lorsque les informations sont relatives à une personne déterminée, le lien entre cette personne et les fins de la demande.

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