This chapter lays down the rules applicable, with a view to facilitating the social rehabilitation of sentenced persons, to the recognition and enforcement, in a Member State of the European Union, of final criminal sentences involving deprivation of liberty or a detention order handed down by the French courts and to the recognition and enforcement in France of such sentences handed down by the courts of another Member State.
The State in whose territory the decision was handed down is known as the sentencing State. The State which is requested to enforce the decision on its territory is called the enforcing State.