Book I: Public prosecutions and investigations

The rules for preparing candidates for the technical examination are laid down by instruction from the Directorate-General for Customs and Indirect Taxation.

The date of the technical examination and the subjects of the tests shall be chosen by mutual agreement between the Director of Criminal Affairs and Pardons and the Director General of Customs and Excise. .

The material organisation of the technical examination relating to the performance of certain judicial police duties by customs officers, and in particular the supply of copies and composition forms and the anonymisation of copies, is provided by the Directorate General of Customs and Indirect Rights.

Candidates are forbidden, on pain of exclusion, to have printed or handwritten documents with them. However, they may consult codes or compendia of laws, decrees and circulars; the latter may include references to legislative or regulatory texts as well as articles of doctrine or case law decisions. Any fraud or attempted fraud in any of the written tests will result in immediate exclusion from the examination, pronounced without delay and…

In the month following the examination, the chairman calls a meeting of the jury to allocate the papers to the markers. He sets the date by which the corrected papers must be submitted to the committee secretariat.

The secretary of the commission: 1° Ensures that the papers have been double marked by a team comprising a magistrate and a customs official. The result of these double markings is submitted to the commission, which deliberates specially on it at the meeting provided for in Article A. 36-9 and sets the final mark; 2° Makes a statement of the marks awarded for each test by the markers; 3° Lists…

Within a maximum period of four months after the date of the examination, the chairman shall convene a meeting of the committee for the purpose of drawing up the list of officers for whom the committee shall issue a favourable opinion on the granting of the status of customs officer responsible for the performance of certain judicial police duties. Only candidates who score at least 30 points in all three…

Candidates who have failed four sessions may no longer be authorised to sit for the technical examination in aptitude for the performance of certain judicial police duties.