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Article D589-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

A handwritten signature collected in digital form is affixed by means of a technical device, after the signatory has become aware of the document in digital format. It is validly affixed only if, subsequent to its collection, an electronic signature is affixed to the document by a person participating in the proceedings within the meaning of Article 11, or if the secure device referred to in article R. 49-1. If…

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Article D589-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The electronic seal may be used, under the condition laid down by Article D. 589-2, in place of the electronic signature provided for in article D. 589-3, including where it is affixed after a handwritten signature collected in digital format pursuant to Article D. 589-4. This electronic seal must be of an advanced level with a qualified certificate within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament…

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Article D589-6 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The exemptions provided for in II of Article 801-1 are applicable to any procedural document in digital format available to the judicial authority as well as those intended to be transmitted to it. The magistrate under whose direction the investigation is conducted may decide not to include in the digital procedural file the documents, multimedia content or data transmitted to him by the service, unit or person mentioned in the…

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Article D590 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the application of the provisions of Article 803-1, the lawyer may make his or her electronic address known after the first appearance of the person under investigation, or the first hearing of the civil party or the assisted witness, where this address does not appear, generally speaking, in the directory of lawyers communicated to the court.

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Article D590-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In the case of documents drawn up or converted into digital format pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 801-1 and Articles D. 589 to D. 589-7, may be served on lawyers by sending them by telecommunication to the lawyer’s electronic address, a written record of which shall be kept, in accordance with the provisions of I of Article 803-1 :

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Article D591 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In accordance with the terms and conditions set out in an agreement between the Ministry of Justice and the national representative organisations of the Bars and Law Societies, the parties’ lawyers may transmit the following requests, statements and observations by a secure means of telecommunication to the electronic address of the court or the relevant department thereof, a written record of which shall be kept: 1° Requests for copies of…

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Article D593-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In application of the first paragraph of I of Article 801-1, the documents of lawyers at the Conseil d’Etat and the Cour de cassation provided for by the provisions of this Code in the context of their representation mandate and in particular constitutions, pleadings as well as the documents associated with them, observations, requests for extensions and derogations and applications may be drawn up and sent to the Criminal Division…

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