Under the provisions of the fifth paragraph of Article 707-1, the public prosecutor shall pursue the enforcement of financial penalties imposed by the competent authorities of the Member States of the European Union.
Enforcement in France of such pecuniary penalties shall be governed by French law in the same way as criminal fines imposed by French criminal courts, subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this section.
The Public Prosecutor shall classify the acts which gave rise to the financial penalty under French law and shall determine the applicable limitation period in accordance with that classification. The limitation period runs, in France, from receipt of the certificate concerning the financial penalty.