This section shall apply to the exchange of information referred to in Article 695-9-51 between French asset recovery offices and the competent authorities of States party to any convention containing provisions on the tracing, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds of crime.
For the purposes of applying Council Framework Decision 2009/948/JHA of 30 November 2009 on prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings, where parallel criminal proceedings conducted in several Member States against the same persons for the same acts, are likely to result in final judgments, the competent authorities of the Member States concerned shall communicate to each other information relating to the criminal proceedings and…
For the application of article 695-9-54, the provisions of Article 11 relating to the secrecy of the investigation and inquiry shall not prevent the communication by the competent judicial authority pursuant to this Code, and subject to confidentiality, of information, from criminal proceedings, relating to the facts, circumstances, identity of the persons implicated or prosecuted and, where applicable, their pre-trial detention or police custody, the identity of the victims and…
Information requested by the requesting authority of such a nature as to prejudice the fundamental national security interests of the State or to compromise the security of a person shall not be communicated.
A judicial authority which decides, on the basis of the information it has gathered in accordance with Article 695-9-54 and after consultation with the competent authorities of the other Member States concerned, to refrain from any further action pending the outcome of criminal proceedings parallel to the one it is conducting shall notify the parties thereof.
The provisions of Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter II shall apply to requests for mutual assistance between France and the other States party to any convention containing stipulations similar to those of the Convention of 29 May 2000 on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Member States of the European Union.
The European arrest warrant is a judicial decision issued by a Member State of the European Union, known as the issuing Member State, with a view to the arrest and surrender by another Member State, known as the executing Member State, of a person sought for the purposes of criminal proceedings or the execution of a custodial sentence or detention order. The judicial authority shall be competent, in accordance with…
The offences which may give rise to the issue of a European arrest warrant are, under the law of the issuing Member State, the following: 1° Offences punishable by deprivation of liberty for a period equal to or exceeding one year or, where a sentence has been passed, where the sentence passed is equal to or exceeds four months’ imprisonment; 2° Offences punishable by a detention order for a period…
Every European arrest warrant shall contain the following information: the identity and nationality of the requested person; the precise designation and full contact details of the judicial authority from which it emanates; an indication of the existence of an enforceable judgment, an arrest warrant or any other judicial decision having the same force under the law of the issuing Member State and falling within the scope of the Articles 695-12…
The European arrest warrant sent to the competent authority of another Member State must be translated into the official language or one of the official languages of the executing Member State or into one of the official languages of the institutions of the European Union accepted by that State.
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