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Title IV: Suspended sentence and adjournment

Article 734 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The court or tribunal imposing a sentence may, in the cases and under the conditions provided for in the articles 132-29 to 132-57 of the Penal Code, order that its execution be stayed. The court may also defer pronouncement of the sentence in the cases and conditions provided for by the articles 132-60 to 132-70 of said code. The procedures for implementing the suspended sentence and deferral are set out…

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Article 735 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Where the trial court has not ruled on the revocation of the suspended sentence pursuant to Article 132-36 of the Penal Code because it was unaware of the first conviction, the public prosecutor may subsequently submit a reasoned application to the criminal court for its revocation. The court will rule in open court, after hearing the person and, if applicable, their lawyer.

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Article 735-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In the event of a prison sentence handed down by the criminal court of a Member State of the European Union, the revocation of the suspended sentence may only be ordered by the criminal court ruling at the request of the public prosecutor, in accordance with the procedure set out in article 735.

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Article 736 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The suspension of sentence does not extend to the payment of damages. Nor does it extend to the incapacities, prohibitions and disqualifications resulting from the conviction. However, these incapacities, prohibitions and disqualifications will cease to have effect from the day on which, by application of the provisions of Article 132-35 of the Criminal Code, the conviction will have been deemed null and void. This provision does not apply to the…

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Article 739 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When a conviction is accompanied by a probationary suspension, the sentenced person is placed under the supervision of the territorially competent sentence enforcement judge in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 712-10. During the probation period, the sentenced person must comply with all the supervision measures provided for by article 132-44 of the Penal Code and those of the specific obligations provided for by article 132-45 of the…

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Article 740 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

During the probation period, the sentence enforcement judge under whose supervision the sentenced person is placed shall ensure, either by himself or by any qualified person, that the supervision and assistance measures and the obligations imposed on the sentenced person are carried out. .

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Article 741-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In the event of imprisonment for a prison sentence that is partly suspended on probation, the convicted person will be given a notice to appear before the prison integration and probation service before being released, within a period of no more than eight days from release in the case of a person who has been convicted or sentenced for an offence for which socio-judicial supervision is incurred, and no more…

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Article 741-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In the light of the report drawn up and submitted by the prison integration and probation service pursuant to the provisions of article L. 621-3 of the Penitentiary Code, the sentence enforcement judge, where the third paragraph of article 132-41-1 of the Penal Code has not been applied, determines the obligations and prohibitions to which the offender is subject and the assistance measures from which he or she benefits. If…

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Article 742 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When the convicted offender does not comply with the supervision measures or special obligations imposed pursuant to article 739, when he has committed an offence followed by a conviction for which the revocation of the suspended sentence has not been ordered, the sentence enforcement judge may, of his own motion or at the request of the public prosecutor, order by reasoned judgment the extension of the probation period. He may…

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