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French Code of Criminal Procedure
- Legislative part
  - Book V: Enforcement procedures
    - Title II: Detention
      - Chapter VI: Enforcement of decisions imposing custodial sentences or security measures pursuant to Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences or measures involving deprivation of liberty for the purpose of their enforcement in the European Union
        Section 2: Provisions relating to the enforcement, in the territory of other Member States of the European Union, of sentences handed down by French courts.
        Paragraph 2: Transfer and transit.

Article 728-26 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Article 728-26 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

November 7, 2023
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No transit request is required when the transfer is made by air without a scheduled stopover. However, in the event of an accidental landing on the territory of a Member State of the European Union, the Minister of Justice shall provide the competent authority of that State with the certificate referred to in Article 728-12 within seventy-two hours.

Original in French 🇫🇷

Article 728-26

Aucune demande de transit n’est requise lorsque le transfèrement s’effectue par un moyen de transport aérien sans escale prévue. Toutefois, en cas d’atterrissage fortuit sur le territoire d’un Etat membre de l’Union européenne, le ministre de la justice fournit à l’autorité compétente de cet Etat le certificat mentionné à l’article 728-12 dans un délai de soixante-douze heures.

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