The agency provides the criminal courts and public prosecutors, at their request or on its own initiative, with guidance as well as legal and practical assistance useful for carrying out planned seizures and confiscations or managing seized and confiscated assets.
It may carry out any information or training activities designed to publicise its work and promote good practice in seizure and confiscation matters.
The Agency shall ensure the replenishment of the assistance fund receiving the proceeds from the confiscation of the movable or immovable property of persons convicted of drug trafficking offences. The agency may also make contributions to the State to finance the fight against delinquency and crime and to finance the prevention of prostitution and the social and professional support of prostitutes.
It may inform the competent services and victims, at their request or on its own initiative, of property that has been returned by court order, in order to ensure payment of their claims, particularly tax, customs, social security or compensation claims.
The agency implements a personal data processing system that centralises the seizure and confiscation decisions referred to it regardless of the nature of the assets, as well as all relevant information relating to the assets in question, their location and their owners or holders.
Magistrates and court clerks assigned to the Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets may directly access information and personal data recorded in the automated national order office for judicial proceedings within the scope of the agency’s remit, for the purposes of proceedings for which seizures or confiscations are being considered or have been carried out and to the extent of the need to know.
The agency draws up an annual activity report, including in particular a statistical report, as well as any reflections and proposals aimed at improving the law and practices relating to seizure and confiscation.