Chapter III: Procedure before the Court of Revision and Reconsideration

The application for review or the application for reconsideration shall be submitted to the commission for the examination of applications for review and reconsideration, which shall rule on its admissibility. Where the application is manifestly inadmissible, the chairman of the commission or his delegate may reject it by a reasoned order that is not subject to appeal. The Commission may order the performance of additional information entrusted to one or…

When an application for reconsideration is referred to the commission d’instruction des demandes en révision et en réexamen, its chairman shall rule by order. It shall refer to the judgment formation of the Court of Revision and Reconsideration applications made within the time limit mentioned in article 622-1 for which it finds that there has been a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights establishing a breach of the…

When an application for review is referred to the committee investigating applications for review and reconsideration pursuant to Article 622, it shall take into account all new facts or unknown elements on which one or more applications previously submitted may have been based and shall refer to the judgment formation of the Court of Revision and Reconsideration applications for which it considers that a new fact has occurred or that…

If the bench of the Court of Revision and Reconsideration considers that the case is not ready for hearing, it shall order that additional information be provided by one or more of its members for the purpose of carrying out, directly or by means of a letter rogatory, in the manner provided for in this Code, any act of information that may be useful in examining the application, with the…

For the purposes of this Title, the applicant shall be represented in the proceedings and assisted during the hearings by a lawyer chosen by him or, at his request, appointed by the court. If the application for review or reconsideration has not been declared manifestly inadmissible pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 624 and the applicant does not have a lawyer, the chairman of the investigating committee shall appoint…

Applicants may, during the examination of their application, submit a written, reasoned request to the Commission d’instruction des demandes en révision et en réexamen (Revision and Reconsideration Applications Examination Commission) for any action that they deem necessary to examine their application. The commission shall rule on the request, in a reasoned decision that is not subject to appeal, within three months of receipt of the request.

The claimant and the civil party may request a copy of all or part of the documents and records in the case file. If the case file has been digitised, this copy shall be provided in digitised form, if necessary by a means of telecommunication in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 803-1. The first copy of each document in the file is issued free of charge. This…