Title I: Enforcement of criminal sentences

If the person against whom a warrant of committal with deferred effect has been issued fails, without legitimate reason, to appear before the public prosecutor or at the prison on the date set for his or her incarceration, the public prosecutor may enforce the sentence by resorting, if necessary, to the force publique, where the sentence is enforceable or, except in the case of an opposition lodged against a sentence…

When a committal order with deferred effect has been issued, referral to the sentence enforcement judge by the sentenced person in accordance with article D. 49-11 of a request for semi-liberty, work release, electronically supervised home detention, sentence splitting or suspension, conditional release or sentence conversion does not suspend the ability of the public prosecutor to enforce the sentence, including by force majeure in the cases provided for in article…

Where there is no victim support office within the court and the sentence is handed down in the presence of the civil party, the sentence enforcement office may be asked to receive the civil party after the hearing, assisted, where appropriate, by his or her lawyer, to inform them in particular of the practical arrangements enabling them to obtain payment of the damages awarded to them and, if applicable, of…

The statute of limitations on a sentence is interrupted by acts or decisions of the public prosecutor, the sentence enforcement judge and, in the case of fines, the directorate general of public finance, which tend towards its enforcement.

The first president of the court of appeal and the public prosecutor, together with the presidents of the judicial courts and the public prosecutors within the jurisdiction of the court of appeal, organise a regional conference at least once a year on sentence adjustments and alternatives to imprisonment. This conference is chaired by the heads of the court of appeal or their representatives. It brings together judges and prosecutors, from…

The provisions of Article R. 522-10 of the Code of Judicial Organisation are applicable to the members of the multidisciplinary committee on security measures mentioned in 4°, 5°, 6° and 7° of Article R. 61-8.

A commission for the execution and enforcement of sentences is set up within each judicial court with the aim of: 1° exchanging information between all the players concerned on the conditions for implementing the sentences handed down by the judicial authorities and the care of convicted persons by the prison and judicial youth protection services; 2° monitoring the process for executing and enforcing the sentences handed down within the jurisdiction,…

In accordance with the last paragraph of Article 711, where the parties agree, applications relating to the enforcement of a sentence, submitted under the conditions laid down in Articles 702-1,703,710,775-1,775-2 and 778, shall be examined by the president of the competent court sitting as a single judge: 1° Either, if this magistrate deems it necessary, at the end of a hearing held in chambers under the conditions laid down in…