When information has been transmitted by a service or unit referred to in Article 695-9-31 to the competent service of a Member State and the latter intends to communicate it to another State or to use it for a purpose other than that for which it was transmitted, the department or unit which carried out the initial transmission shall be competent to assess whether, at the request of the receiving…
Information transmitted by the departments and units referred to in article 695-9-31 may be used by the receiving department as evidence, unless otherwise stated at the time of transmission.
The information transmitted by the departments or units mentioned in Article 695-9-31 to the competent services of a Member State shall also be transmitted to the Eurojust Agency and the Europol unit insofar as it relates to an offence falling within their mandate.
An order of the Minister for Justice, the Minister for the Interior and the Minister for the Budget shall designate the contact points to which requests for the transmission of information may be addressed by the competent departments of the Member States.
The persons mentioned in the article L. 135 ZC du livre des procédures fiscales shall respond via the Europol national unit mentioned in paragraph 2 of Article 7 of Regulation 2016/794 of 11 May 2016 on the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) to duly justified requests for bank account information submitted on a case-by-case basis by Europol within the limits of its responsibilities and for the performance…
The provisions of this section shall apply to the exchange of information referred to in Article 695-9-31 between the services or units mentioned in the same Article and the competent services of the non-EU Member States associated with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis.
The procedures for applying the provisions of this section shall be determined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. This decree shall, in particular, lay down the procedures and deadlines for forwarding information to the departments that requested it.
For the application of Council Decision 2007/845/JHA of 6 December 2007 on cooperation between Asset Recovery Offices of the Member States in tracing and identifying the proceeds of crime or other property related to crime, and in the absence of an international convention stipulating otherwise, the services designated as French Asset Recovery Offices may, under the conditions laid down in this section, for the purposes of tracing and identifying movable…
Within this framework, these services may obtain any useful information from any natural or legal person, public or private, without professional secrecy being enforceable against them, subject to the provisions of article 66-5 of Law no. 71-1130 of 31 December 1971 reforming certain judicial and legal professions.
The first two paragraphs of Article 695-9-40 are applicable to requests for information received by French asset recovery offices.
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