Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to requests for information issued by the French services

The request for transmission drawn up, pursuant to Article 695-9-33, by the departments or units mentioned in Article 695-9-31, shall contain the information listed in the model in Annex B to Framework Decision 2006/960/JHA of 18 December 2006 and specifying, in particular: 1° The expected time limit for transmitting the information and, where appropriate, the reasons for the urgent processing requested; 2° The circumstances in which the offence was committed;…

Where, on the one hand, the request for information relates to an offence falling within one of the categories listed in Article 695-23 and punishable in France by a custodial sentence of at least three years’ imprisonment and, secondly, the information requested is directly accessible in an automated data processing system, the services and units mentioned in Article 685-9-31 may ask the competent service of the requested State to forward…