Article R55-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure
In the event of an adversarial decision handed down in the presence of the convicted person or his representative, the latter will be given, at the end of the hearing, if he so requests, a statement of criminal conviction enabling him to voluntarily pay the fixed procedural fees and, if applicable, the fine within one month to the accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finances. The convicted offender…