Book V: Enforcement procedures.

It is allocated to bailiffs for all summonses in criminal, correctional and police matters, for the service of appearance warrants, for all service of orders, judgments and rulings and all other acts or documents in criminal, correctional and police matters, a fixed sum of 4.50 euros for the original, copies and sending by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt provided for by articles 557 and 558 and this, in addition…

In the cases provided for in the previous article, bailiffs shall also be awarded the sum of 6.86 euros if the document was delivered in person.

Where the Public Prosecutor has not been issued with a copy of the documents or judgments to be served, service shall be made by the bailiffs on the minutes entrusted to them by the registrars against receipt, on condition that they return them to the registry within twenty-four hours of service. When a document or judgment has been given in a copy to the public prosecutor, service is made on…

Copies of all deeds, judgments and documents to be served are always made by bailiffs or their clerks.

When copies of certain documents must be given, a lump sum of 0.91 euros is awarded in police matters and 1.37 euros in criminal and correctional matters, regardless of the number of pages copied. .

Except in the case of special provisions of the laws and regulations, no fee shall be paid to law enforcement officers for summonses, notifications and service of documents for which they may be responsible by officers of the judicial police and by the public prosecutor’s office.