Title X: International Mutual Legal Assistance

For the requirements connected with the performance of his duties, the national member of the Eurojust Agency shall have access, under the same conditions as prosecuting magistrates, to data contained in any automated processing of personal data.

I. – The national member shall be informed by the public prosecutor, the public prosecutor or the investigating judge of ongoing investigations or proceedings and of convictions relating to cases that may fall within Eurojust’s jurisdiction where they have given rise or are likely to give rise to the transmission to at least two Member States of requests or decisions on judicial cooperation pursuant, in particular, to instruments based on…

The national member shall be competent to receive and forward to the competent public prosecutor information relating to the investigations of the European Anti-Fraud Office to which it is a party.

As the competent national authority, the national member may receive and transmit, as appropriate, to the competent authorities of the other Member States or to the French judicial authorities any requests made or decisions taken by either of them in the field of judicial cooperation, in particular in application of instruments based on the principle of mutual recognition. It may follow up such requests and decisions and facilitate their execution….

I. – The national member may, as a national authority with the authorisation of the competent judicial authority, submit requests or take decisions in matters of judicial cooperation in application, in particular, of instruments based on the principle of mutual recognition. As soon as the act referred to in the authorisation has been carried out, the national member shall inform that authority and send it the implementing documents, in original…

The national member may participate, as Eurojust’s representative, in the setting up and operation of joint investigation teams.