The compensation provided for by article 800-2 includes compensation for legal fees incurred by the person being prosecuted, the amount of which may not exceed the State’s contribution to the remuneration of the lawyer who would have assisted the person concerned under the legal aid scheme for the whole of the proceedings leading to the decision to dismiss, acquit or acquit.
This compensation also includes, unless the person being prosecuted was in pre-trial detention at the time of his or her appearances before the investigating or trial courts:
1° For the questioning of the person before the investigating judge, the investigating chamber or a magistrate of a trial court responsible for a supplemental investigation, his appearance before the juvenile court or judge, the police court, the criminal court or the criminal appeals chamber, appearance allowances that may not exceed those calculated under the conditions set out in the articles R. 129, R. 130 and R. 131;
2° In the event of an appearance before the assize court, daily allowances not exceeding those calculated under the conditions set out in article R. 140 ;
3° Transport allowances not exceeding those calculated under the conditions set out in articles R. 133 and R. 138;
4° If the person concerned has been detained away from his or her place of residence due to appearances before the investigating or trial courts, subsistence allowances not exceeding those calculated under the conditions set out in article R. 111.
If the person being prosecuted has set up a security in the course of a judicial review, pursuant to the provisions of 15° of article 138, this compensation also includes the costs of setting up, advertising and striking off, the rate for which is set by the regulatory texts governing this security.
Where the security has been constituted in favour of a provisional beneficiary pursuant to the provisions of the articles 142 and R. 24-2, the compensation shall also include reimbursement of the sums paid to that person, in an amount not exceeding 150 euros or, if the provisions of Article R. 24-6 have been applied, 300 euros.