Any person apprehended in execution of a European arrest warrant must be brought before the territorially competent public prosecutor within forty-eight hours. During this period, the provisions of Articles 63-1 to 63-7 shall apply.
After verifying the identity of that person, the Public Prosecutor shall inform him, in a language he understands, of the existence and content of the European arrest warrant against him. He shall also inform the person that he may be assisted by a lawyer of his choice or, failing that, by a lawyer appointed by the President of the Bar Association, who shall be informed immediately and by any means. He shall likewise notify her that she may confer immediately with the appointed lawyer.
The Public Prosecutor shall also inform the person that he may request to be assisted in the issuing Member State of the warrant by a lawyer of his choice or by a court-appointed lawyer; if the person so requests, the request shall be immediately forwarded to the competent judicial authority of the issuing Member State.
Note of this information shall be made, on pain of nullity of the procedure, in the minutes.
The lawyer appointed pursuant to the second paragraph may consult the file immediately and communicate freely with the requested person.
The Public Prosecutor shall then inform the requested person of his or her option to consent to or oppose his or her surrender to the judicial authority of the issuing Member State and of the legal consequences resulting from such consent. It shall also inform him that he may waive the rule of speciality and of the legal consequences of such waiver.
Where the European arrest warrant has been issued for the purpose of executing a custodial sentence or detention order and the person is in the case provided for in 4° of article 695-22-1 and has not been informed in the legally prescribed manner of the existence of the criminal proceedings that led to the conviction, he or she may request to receive a copy of the conviction before it is handed over. The Public Prosecutor shall inform the competent authority of the issuing Member State of such a request. As soon as that authority has sent him a copy of the decision, the Public Prosecutor shall forward it to the person concerned. This communication shall be for information purposes. It shall not be deemed to constitute service of the decision and shall not give rise to any time limit for lodging an appeal.
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