Information requested by the requesting authority of such a nature as to prejudice the fundamental national security interests of the State or to compromise the security of a person shall not be communicated.
A judicial authority which decides, on the basis of the information it has gathered in accordance with Article 695-9-54 and after consultation with the competent authorities of the other Member States concerned, to refrain from any further action pending the outcome of criminal proceedings parallel to the one it is conducting shall notify the parties thereof.
The provisions of Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter II shall apply to requests for mutual assistance between France and the other States party to any convention containing stipulations similar to those of the Convention of 29 May 2000 on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Member States of the European Union.
The European arrest warrant is a judicial decision issued by a Member State of the European Union, known as the issuing Member State, with a view to the arrest and surrender by another Member State, known as the executing Member State, of a person sought for the purposes of criminal proceedings or the execution of a custodial sentence or detention order. The judicial authority shall be competent, in accordance with…
The offences which may give rise to the issue of a European arrest warrant are, under the law of the issuing Member State, the following: 1° Offences punishable by deprivation of liberty for a period equal to or exceeding one year or, where a sentence has been passed, where the sentence passed is equal to or exceeds four months’ imprisonment; 2° Offences punishable by a detention order for a period…
Every European arrest warrant shall contain the following information: the identity and nationality of the requested person; the precise designation and full contact details of the judicial authority from which it emanates; an indication of the existence of an enforceable judgment, an arrest warrant or any other judicial decision having the same force under the law of the issuing Member State and falling within the scope of the Articles 695-12…
The European arrest warrant sent to the competent authority of another Member State must be translated into the official language or one of the official languages of the executing Member State or into one of the official languages of the institutions of the European Union accepted by that State.
Where the requested person is in a known place on the territory of another Member State, the European arrest warrant may be sent directly to the executing judicial authority, by any means that leaves a written record, under conditions that enable that authority to verify its authenticity. In other cases, a European arrest warrant may be transmitted either via the Schengen Information System or via the secure telecommunications system of…
The Public Prosecutor’s Office at the investigating, trial or enforcement court that has issued an arrest warrant shall execute it in the form of a European arrest warrant either at the request of the court or of its own motion, in accordance with the rules and under the conditions determined by the articles 695-12 to 695-15. In the absence of a waiver of the benefit of the principle of speciality,…
Where the Public Prosecutor’s Office has been informed of the arrest of the requested person, it shall without delay send the Minister for Justice a copy of the arrest warrant transmitted to the judicial authority of the executing Member State. Where the arrested person is sought for the enforcement of a custodial sentence or detention order and, having been sentenced in his absence, requests that the sentencing decision be communicated…
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