Regulatory part - Council of State decrees

The public prosecutors and the public prosecutors shall at the same time examine the writings to ensure that they comply with the requirements of Article R. 185, and they shall reduce at the appropriate rate the price of pleadings that are not in the proportion established by the said article.

Any judicial officer who refuses to act in proceedings taken at the request of the public prosecutor or to perform the service to which he is obliged before the court or tribunal and who, after an injunction made to him by the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor, persists in his refusal, shall be dismissed, without prejudice to any damages and other penalties he may have incurred.

Judicial officers may not, for any reason or on any pretext whatsoever, demand other or higher fees than those allocated to them by this Title. By way of derogation from the rule laid down in the preceding paragraph, the costs of documents issued at the request of civil parties after the public prosecution has been extinguished and with a view to obtaining a ruling solely on civil interests shall be…