Section 1: Decisions that may be taken at any stage of the procedure

The departmental prefect and, in Paris, the police prefect are competent to determine the country of return of a foreign national in the event of the automatic enforcement of the following decisions: 1° A decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory; or 2° A ban on returning to French territory;> and 3° The implementation of a decision taken by another State; 4° A ban on movement on French territory;…

The Minister of the Interior is competent to determine the country of removal in the event of compulsory enforcement in the following cases:1° When the foreign national, present on French territory, is subject to an administrative ban on entry;2° When he himself has issued the expulsion decision to which the foreign national is subject ; however, the prefect of the département and, in Paris, the prefect of the police are…