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French Code of Criminal Procedure
- Legislative part
  - Book IV: Some special procedures
    - Title X: International Mutual Legal Assistance
      - Chapter II: Provisions specific to mutual assistance between France and the other Member States of the European Union
        Section 6: Simplified exchange of information between departments pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 18 December 2006
        Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-42 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Article 695-9-42 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 7, 2023
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The departments and units referred to in Article 695-9-31 may refuse to transmit the information requested where it relates to an offence punishable in France by a term of imprisonment of up to one year and where it does not appear to them to be of sufficient interest to justify the constraints attached to its transmission.

Original in French 🇫🇷

Article 695-9-42

Les services et unités mentionnés à l’article 695-9-31 peuvent refuser de transmettre les informations demandées lorsqu’elles se rapportent à une infraction punie en France d’une peine d’emprisonnement inférieure ou égale à un an et qu’elles ne leur paraissent pas présenter un intérêt suffisant pour justifier les contraintes attachées à leur transmission.

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