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Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article A38-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The public prosecutor’s annual report on the status and timeframes for the enforcement of sentences provided for by Article 709-2 may be freely consulted by any person who so requests. Before the last working day of the month of June, a poster shall be put up in a room open to the public in the judicial court in order to indicate the practical arrangements for this consultation. The public prosecutor…

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Article A38-3 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The accounting officers of the Directorate General of Public Finance responsible for the recovery of fines and pecuniary penalties, to whom the documents provided for in the fourth paragraph of 2° of article 2 of Decree no. 64-1333 of 22 December 1964, as amended, relating to the recovery of fines and financial penalties by the accountants of the Directorate General of Public Finances, are those of the seat of the…

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Article A38-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The regional directorate of public finance for Brittany and the Ille-et-Vilaine department is responsible for carrying out the following management operations: 1° It is responsible for collecting all increased fixed-rate fines issued for offences detected by the automated control system in accordance with the dispositions de l’article L. 130-9 du code de la route et résultant d’un titre exécutoire signé par le procureur de la République près le tribunal judiciaire…

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Article A38-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In application of the 11° of Article 4 of Decree no. 2009-707 of 16 June 2009 as amended relating to the decentralised departments of the Directorate General of Public Finances and notwithstanding the provisions of Article A. 38-3, the regional directorate of public finance for Occitanie and the department of Haute-Garonne ensures the recovery of fines and pecuniary sentences for which the general directorate of public finance is competent and…

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Article A38-5-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Notwithstanding the provisions of article A. 38-3, the recovery of the increased fixed fines for misdemeanours provided for in Article 495-18 is carried out by the accountants of the Directorate General of Public Finances responsible for the recovery of fines imposed by the judicial court of the capital of the department in which the person liable for the fine is domiciled. However, where the taxpayer’s domicile is not known or…

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Article A38-5-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In application of 11° of Article 4 of Decree no. 2009-707 of 16 June 2009 as amended relating to the decentralised departments of the Directorate-General of Public Finance and by derogation from Articles A. 38-3 to A. 38-5-1, the Ile-de-France and Paris Regional Directorates of Public Finance shall be responsible for recovering fines, penalties and confiscations in terms of value for which the Directorate-General of Public Finance is competent pursuant…

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Article A38-6 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The fixed procedural fees provided for in the Article 1018 A of the General Tax Code shall, in accordance with the provisions of the ninth paragraph of that Article, be increased by a sum of 210 euros, corresponding to the amount, rounded down to the nearest ten, of the maximum compensation provided for by 10° of Article R. 118 of this code for toxicological analyses to establish the presence of…

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Article A39-3 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The list of prisons classified in the category of centres for managed sentences or comprising a section for managed sentences provided for in Article D. 72-1 is set as follows: – ward for managed sentences at the Aix-Luynes penitentiary centre; – ward for managed sentences at the Alençon – Condé-sur-Sarthe penitentiary centre (Orne); – ward for managed sentences at the Bordeaux-Gradignan penitentiary centre (Gironde) ; – section for managed sentences…

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Article A43-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In accordance with the provisions of article R. 121, the compensation due, pursuant to article R. 121-1, to natural persons who are personality investigators, judicial controllers, delegates of the public prosecutor or mediators of the public prosecutor, are set by the table below: IP. ¹ 39 IP. ² 74 IP. ³ 52 IP. 4 111 IP. 5 153 IP. 6 12

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Article A43-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In accordance with the provisions of Article R. 121, the compensation due, pursuant to article R. 121-3, to authorised associations that have entered into an agreement with the first president and the public prosecutor of the court of appeal, are set out in the table below: IA. ¹ 150 IA. ² 70 IA. ³ 1110 IA. 4 925 IA. 5 370 IA. 6 25

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