Where the public prosecutor, examining magistrate or president of the court hearing the proceedings has reasonable grounds to believe that proceedings against the same persons for the same acts are underway in another Member State of the European Union, he shall, request confirmation from the competent authority of that State of the existence of parallel proceedings, with a view to entering into direct consultations in order to avoid the possible negative consequences of the coexistence of these two proceedings, such as concurrent prosecutions or multiple convictions of the same person for the same acts.