Section 1: Receipt of applications for recognition and monitoring of convictions and probation decisions

The Public Prosecutor shall receive requests for recognition and enforcement in the territory of the Republic of convictions or probation decisions handed down by the courts of other Member States. It may also ask the competent authority of another Member State to forward to it a request for recognition and enforcement in the territory of the Republic of a conviction handed down by a court in that State. If the…

The competent public prosecutor is the one in whose jurisdiction the convicted person’s lawful habitual residence is located. Failing this, the public prosecutor at the Paris judicial court has jurisdiction. If the public prosecutor to whom the request has been addressed by the sentencing State for the purposes of recognition and enforcement does not have jurisdiction, he will forward it without delay to the competent public prosecutor. The competent authority…

Where, before transmitting the conviction or probation decision and the certificate, the competent authority of the sentencing State consults the Public Prosecutor in cases where, pursuant to 2° of article 764-5, recognition of the conviction or decision is subject to the consent of the executing State, the Public Prosecutor consents to the transmission of the conviction or probation decision if the person concerned is of French nationality. In all other…

Within seven days of receiving the request, the public prosecutor shall refer the matter to the territorially competent sentence enforcement judge pursuant to Article 712-10 of the request, together with his or her submissions.