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Article R15-33-29-21 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

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…

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Article R15-33-29-22 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

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.

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Article R15-33-29-23 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

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.

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Article R15-33-29-24 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

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…

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Article R15-33-29-25 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

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…

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Article R15-33-29-26 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

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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Article R15-33-29-27 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

An individual file concerning the activities of the judicial environmental officer is kept permanently at the public prosecutor’s office of the court of appeal within whose jurisdiction the headquarters of the department to which the officer is attached is located. This file includes in particular: 1° Applications for authorisation and the documents attached to them; 2° Copies of decisions handed down by the judicial authorities pursuant to the provisions of…

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Article R15-33-29-28 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The public prosecutor at the judicial court within whose jurisdiction the headquarters of the department to which the judicial environmental officer is attached is located, after collecting, where applicable, the observations of the examining magistrates and the presidents of the criminal divisions, draws up, every two years, a proposed rating which he sends to the public prosecutor at the court of appeal within whose jurisdiction the headquarters of the department…

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Article R15-33-29-29 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The proposals for staff reports and the staff reports provided for in article R. 15-33-29-28 shall be drawn up on a form conforming to the model laid down by the Minister of Justice. They shall include a detailed general assessment, as well as a numerical mark from 0 to 10 and an assessment of each of the following elements where they have been observed: 1° Professional relations with the judicial…

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Article R15-33-29-30 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The rating drawn up by the public prosecutor at the court of appeal in whose jurisdiction the headquarters of the department to which the judicial environmental officer is attached is located is brought directly to the attention of the officer, who may submit comments in writing within a period of fifteen days, at the end of which time the final rating is immediately sent to the director of the French…

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