Paragraph 2: Authorisation of judicial environmental officers

For each judicial environmental officer, a request for authorisation is sent, on the proposal of the Director General of the French Biodiversity Office, to the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal in whose jurisdiction the headquarters of the department to which the judicial environmental officer belongs is located. Judicial environmental officers may not effectively exercise the powers attached to this status or rely on it unless they are assigned…

The Public Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal within whose jurisdiction the headquarters of the department to which the judicial environmental officer is attached is located grants or refuses authorisation by decree. If the Attorney General intends to refuse authorisation, he will inform the person concerned, specifying that he may, within a period of fifteen days, examine his case file and be heard, where appropriate, with the assistance of counsel…

The Public Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal within whose jurisdiction the headquarters of the department to which the judicial environmental officer is attached is located shall order the withdrawal or suspension of the authorisation for a period not exceeding two years, by order issued either on its own initiative or on a proposal from the Director General of the French Office for Biodiversity. The Public Prosecutor shall first hear…