Where the Public Prosecutor decides, of his own motion or at the request of the accused, to use the procedure of appearance on prior recognition of guilt on appeal pursuant to the last paragraph of Article 495-15, it shall inform the President of the Criminal Appeals Chamber of the Court of Appeal before which the case had been heard, if this hearing had already been set.
This decision may not be taken less than one month before the date scheduled for the hearing, unless the president of the division of the court of appeal agrees.
In all cases, if recourse is made to the procedure of appearance on prior acknowledgement of guilt, the date of the homologation hearing must be set more than ten days before the date of the hearing scheduled before the criminal appeals chamber.