Section 2: Mutual assistance for the purposes of hearings, surveillance or infiltration

The provisions of Article 706-71 shall apply to the simultaneous execution, on the territory of the Republic and abroad, of requests for mutual assistance from foreign judicial authorities or acts of mutual assistance carried out at the request of French judicial authorities. Interrogations, hearings or confrontations carried out abroad at the request of the French judicial authorities shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of this Code, unless…

When the surveillance provided for in Article 706-80 is to be prosecuted in a foreign State, it shall be authorised, under the conditions provided for by international conventions, by the public prosecutor in charge of the investigation. Records of the execution of surveillance operations or reports relating thereto, as well as authorisation to continue their execution on the territory of a foreign State, shall be placed in the record of…

With the prior agreement of the Minister of Justice to whom a request for mutual legal assistance has been made for this purpose, foreign police officers may pursue undercover operations on the territory of the Republic, under the direction of French judicial police officers, in accordance with the provisions of articles 706-81 à 706-87. The agreement of the Minister of Justice may be subject to conditions. The operation must then…

With the agreement of the foreign judicial authorities, the foreign police officers referred to in the second paragraph of Article 694-7 may also, under the conditions laid down by the articles 706-81 to 706-87, participate under the direction of French judicial police officers in undercover operations conducted on the territory of the Republic as part of national judicial proceedings.

When, in accordance with the stipulations of international conventions, the public prosecutor or investigating judge communicates information from ongoing criminal proceedings to foreign judicial authorities, he or she may subject the use of such information to conditions that he or she determines.