The syllabus for the technical examination is as follows:
Criminal procedure
Introduction:
Freedom of evidence; separation of prosecuting, investigating and adjudicating authorities;
Public prosecution; civil action.
A. – Authorities vested by law with judicial police functions:
The public prosecutor;
The investigating judge;
Officers and agents of the judicial police;
Customs officers entrusted with the performance of certain judicial police duties.
B. – Judicial police activities:
The distinction between administrative police and judicial police;
The flagrante delicto procedure;
The preliminary investigation;
Searches and seizures, police custody;
The control of the judicial police mission;
Preparatory investigation, letters rogatory, indictment, judicial warrants, rules governing the investigation, control by the investigating chamber over the activity of judicial police officers and customs officers;
The criminal courts;
The criminal procedure applicable to minors;
The nullity of procedural acts.
General criminal law
A. – General information on criminal law:
B. – The criminal offence:
The constituent elements of the offence: the legal element, the material element, the moral element;
The classification of offences and the judicial organisation in criminal matters;
The general principles of criminal liability, complicity, the criminal liability of legal persons.
C. – Sentencing:
Definition and classification of penalties;
Enforcement of penalties.
Special criminal law
A. – Infringements of the Customs Code
B. – Indirect tax offences.
C. – Infringements of trademark counterfeiting legislation.
D. – Criminal code offences:
– Offences against the human person: drug trafficking;
– Offences against property: theft, fraud, breach of trust, receiving stolen goods, money laundering;
– Offences against the authority of the State: bribery, active and passive corruption, illegal taking of interests, embezzlement and misappropriation of property, influence peddling, acts of intimidation committed against persons holding public office, embezzlement and misappropriation of property contained in a public depository, contempt, rebellion;
– offences against public trust: forgery, falsification of marks of authority.