This Chapter determines the rules applicable, with a view to guaranteeing the appearance in court and promoting, where appropriate, the use of alternatives to pre-trial detention for the person not residing in the Member State of the criminal proceedings which concern him, to the recognition and monitoring, in a Member State of the European Union, of decisions to place a person under judicial supervision pronounced by a French judicial authority, and to the recognition and enforcement in France of equivalent decisions pronounced by the competent authorities of another Member State of the European Union.
The State in whose territory a person is placed under judicial supervision is called the issuing State. The State which is asked to recognise and supervise the measures ordered on its territory is called the executing State.