For the offences provided for in Title IV of the present book for which a prison sentence is not incurred and for the contraventions provided for in the present book, the administrative authority responsible for competition and consumption has the right, as long as the public prosecution has not been initiated, to compromise, after agreement by the public prosecutor, in accordance with the procedures laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.
The act by which the Public Prosecutor gives his agreement to the proposed settlement interrupts the statute of limitations for the public prosecution.
The public prosecution is extinguished when the offender has performed the obligations resulting for him from acceptance of the settlement within the time limit set.