Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to asset freezing orders issued by the French judicial authorities

The public prosecutor, the investigating courts, the liberty and custody judge and the trial courts, which are competent under the provisions of this code to order the seizure of property, are competent to issue, in the same cases and under the same conditions, freezing orders relating to property or evidence located on the territory of another Member State of the European Union and to draw up the certificates relating to…

The freezing order issued by an investigating judge shall be forwarded by the latter, together with his certificate, to the judicial authority of the executing State, in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 695-9-6. In other cases, the decision and the certificate are forwarded by the Public Prosecutor’s Office to the court that issued them.

Decisions releasing the freezing order shall be transmitted without delay, in accordance with the procedures laid down in article 695-9-8, to the judicial authority of the executing State.