The provisions of articles 707-2 and 707-4 relating to the reduction in the amount of fines in the event of voluntary payment within one month are applicable to foreign pecuniary penalties when they are :
The public prosecutor who enforces a financial penalty covered by Article D. 48-30 notifies the convicted person by registered letter that, if he or she pays the amount of this pecuniary penalty within one month of the date on which this letter is sent, the amount of the sum of money ordered as a sentence, the sum of money relating to the costs of the judicial or administrative proceedings and,…
The reduction in the financial penalty provided for by Article D. 48-30 only applies in the event of simultaneous payment, within a period of one month, of the sum of money ordered as a sentence, the sum of money relating to the costs of the judicial or administrative proceedings and, if applicable, the sum of money allocated to a public fund or a victim support organisation. The reduction applies to…
A statement of financial penalties is sent to the accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finance at the same time as the notice provided for in Article D. 48-31. These statements are sent under the simplified dispatch note provided for in the second paragraph of Article R. 55-5.
Articles 108 to 110 of Decree No. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting management are applicable to foreign financial penalties.
Foreign pecuniary penalties are recovered in accordance with the procedures determined by the decree no. 64-1333 of 22 December 1964 relating to the recovery of fines and pecuniary penalties by the accountants of the Directorate General of Public Finance. The provisions of Article 2 of this decree are not applicable to these penalties. Those for which the provisions of articles D. 48-30 to D. 48-33 are not applicable shall be…
In the event of wilful failure to pay the sum of money corresponding to a pecuniary penalty imposed as a sentence for acts which would constitute under French law a felony or misdemeanour punishable by a custodial sentence, the sentence enforcement judge may, if the acts are punishable by a custodial sentence in the issuing State, order, under the conditions provided for in the articles 750 to 762, a judicial…
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