The court shall rule in open court, after hearing the public prosecutor, the convicted person and, where applicable, the lawyer chosen by him or appointed ex officio at his request. The judgment is immediately enforceable notwithstanding any appeal.
Transfer periods are deducted in full from the length of the sentence served in France. .
All contentious incidents relating to the enforcement of the custodial sentence remaining to be served in France shall be brought before the correctional court of the place of detention. The provisions of Article 711 of this Code shall apply.
The enforcement of the sentence shall be governed by the provisions of this Code.
No criminal proceedings may be instituted or continued and no sentence may be enforced in respect of the same acts against a convicted person who is serving in France, pursuant to an international convention or agreement, a custodial sentence handed down by a foreign court.
This chapter lays down the rules applicable, with a view to facilitating the social rehabilitation of sentenced persons, to the recognition and enforcement, in a Member State of the European Union, of final criminal sentences involving deprivation of liberty or a detention order handed down by the French courts and to the recognition and enforcement in France of such sentences handed down by the courts of another Member State. The…
A sentencing decision handed down by a French court or a court of a Member State may be transmitted, as the case may be, by the competent French authority for the purposes of recognition and enforcement in the enforcing State or to that authority for the purposes of recognition and enforcement in France if the sentenced person is on French territory or that of the other Member State and in…
Any sentencing decision transmitted pursuant to this chapter for the purposes of recognition and enforcement on French territory or that of another Member State or any request for transit shall be accompanied by a certificate specifying in particular: 1° The designation of the convicting State and the court that handed down the sentencing decision; 2° The identity of the person against whom the sentencing decision was handed down, the address…
Withdrawal of the certificate shall constitute withdrawal of the application for recognition and enforcement and shall preclude enforcement of the custodial sentence or detention order pursuant to this chapter.
The transmission of the sentencing decision, the request for transit, the certificate and all documents relating to the enforcement of the sentence as well as any exchange relating thereto shall be carried out directly, as the case may be, with the competent authorities of the sentencing State or those of the executing State, by any means that leaves a written record and under conditions that enable the addressee to verify…
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