Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Officials and agents of administrations and public services to whom special laws assign certain judicial police powers exercise these powers under the conditions and within the limits set by these laws. Where the law provides that these officials and agents may be required by letter rogatory from the investigating judge, they shall exercise, within the limits of the letter rogatory, the powers conferred on them by the special laws mentioned…

I.-Category A and B customs officers, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are determined by decree in the Council of State, may be authorised to carry out judicial investigations at the request of the public prosecutor or on the basis of a rogatory commission from the examining magistrate. In order to carry…

I.-Customs officers and tax officials not specially designated pursuant to Articles 28-1 and 28-2, who have passed a training course culminating in an examination certifying their suitability to carry out the tasks entrusted to them by law and who have been specially designated by order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister responsible for the budget may, regardless of the administration to which they belong, carry out the tasks…

I.-Category A and B tax department agents, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are determined by decree in the Council of State, may be authorised to carry out judicial investigations at the request of the public prosecutor or on the basis of a rogatory commission from the examining magistrate. These officers have…

I.-Category A and B environmental inspectors competent to investigate and record environmental offences pursuant to Article L. 172-1 of the Environment Code assigned to the French Biodiversity Office, specially designated by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister for the Environment, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are determined by decree in the Council of State, have, the same prerogatives and obligations…