The provisions of articles R. 15-33-18 and R. 15-33-20 to R. 15-33-23 are applicable to the exercise of judicial police missions by authorised tax agents.
The category A and B environmental inspectors referred to in article 28-3 are referred to as judicial environmental officers.
The committee referred to in I of Article 28-3 shall comprise: 1° The public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation or his delegate chosen by him from among the first advocates general or advocates general at the Court of Cassation, chairman; 2° Three magistrates from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, no more than two of whom may be honorary magistrates; 3° The Director General of Planning, Housing and Nature or his…
The members of the commission mentioned in 2° of article R. 15-33-29-18 and their alternates and, on the proposal of the members mentioned in 3° and 4° of the same article, the representatives of the latter, are appointed by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister for the Environment.
In order to be appointed as a judicial environmental officer, environmental inspectors must have passed a technical examination. The procedures for organising this examination and the test programme are set by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister for the Environment. By way of derogation from the provisions of the first paragraph, a joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister for the Environment sets…
The jury for the technical examination is formed by the committee referred to in article R. 15-33-29-19. The members of the committee or their alternates called upon to make up the jury must sit for the entire duration of the examination. The jury draws up the list of candidates who have passed the technical examination.
Environmental judicial officers are appointed from among the persons mentioned in the first and third paragraphs of Article R. 15-33-29-21, by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister for the Environment, on a proposal from the Director General of the French Biodiversity Office and after receiving the assent of the commission mentioned in Article R. 15-33-29-19.
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…
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