The Public Prosecutor sends the Attorney General the annual criminal policy report on the application of the law and the general instructions, as well as the annual report on the activity and management of his Public Prosecutor’s Office, provided for in the second paragraph of article 39-1, before 31 January of the year following the year to which they relate.
The information contained in these two reports may be combined in a single report.
To this report or these reports shall be annexed or incorporated the report provided for in the third paragraph of Article 41 concerning police custody measures and police custody premises, which is drawn up by the public prosecutor in the light of, in particular, the information and statistics sent to him for this purpose by the criminal investigation departments and units within his jurisdiction, as well as the report on the status and timeframes for the enforcement of sentences provided for by l’article 709-2.
The public prosecutor communicates his report(s) to the president of the judicial court, for distribution to the judges before the next general meeting of judges and public prosecutors, during which he informs this meeting of the conditions of implementation, in his jurisdiction, of criminal policy and the general instructions sent to him for this purpose by the Minister of Justice.