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Article D46-6-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The summons drawn up pursuant to article 390 specifies that the person may request the assistance of a lawyer immediately or at any time during the proceedings. It also specifies the conditions under which they can benefit from legal aid and the addresses of the structures where they can receive legal advice.

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Article D46-7 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

People holding a national diploma attesting to training of at least four years’ duration, of higher education after the baccalaureate, meeting the conditions for access to the civil service and providing proof of at least four years’ professional experience, may perform the duties of specialist assistant provided for by article 628-9with the Paris judicial court, if the diploma validates training in at least one of the following subjects: I.-Penal law…

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Article D47-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The applicant for registration of forgery against a document produced before the Cour de cassation, whose application is rejected by the first president, shall be ordered, unless expressly exempted, to pay a civil fine of not less than 30 euros and not more than 150 euros. .

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Article D47-1-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The magistrate who has issued a European Investigation Order or who is responsible for the enforcement of such an order shall consult directly and by any appropriate means, including via the telecommunications system of the European Judicial Network, the foreign executing or issuing authority to facilitate the recognition and enforcement of the order, in particular to settle any difficulty relating to the transmission or authenticity of a document necessary for…

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Article D47-1-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Any European investigation order issued by one of the judicial authorities mentioned in Article 694-20 is drafted using the form set out in Annex A to Directive 2014/41/EU of 3 April 2014 on the European Investigation Order in criminal matters. It shall be translated, if necessary, into the language or one of the languages that the executing authority has declared that it accepts. It may be transmitted to the executing…

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Article D47-1-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If an appeal is lodged against the European Investigation Order, the magistrate who issued that order shall inform the executing authority thereof, as well as of the outcome of that appeal. However, failure to comply with this obligation to provide information does not constitute a ground for invalidity.

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Article D47-1-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When issuing a European Investigation Order for the seizure of evidence, the magistrate shall specify in the order: either 1° that the evidence is to be transferred to him; or 2° or that it must be preserved in the executing State in order to prevent its destruction, transformation, removal or disposal until a date to be determined by the executing State, without prejudice to the possibility of requesting the transfer…

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Article D47-1-6 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the application of articles 694-25 and 694-26, where a European investigation decision requires a person detained on national territory to be temporarily transferred to the territory of the executing State or vice versa, or to transit through the territory of a third State, the Director of Prison Administration of the Ministry of Justice, acting on a referral from the national judicial authority, formalises the request for transfer or transit,…

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