Where, on the one hand, the request for information relates to an offence falling within one of the categories listed in Article 695-23 and punishable in France by a custodial sentence of at least three years’ imprisonment and, secondly, the information requested is directly accessible in an automated data processing system, the services and units mentioned in Article 685-9-31 may ask the competent service of the requested State to forward the information to them, in urgent cases, within a maximum of eight hours and, in the absence of urgency, within a maximum of seven days.
In other cases, the competent services of the requested State may be asked to transmit the information requested within a maximum of fourteen days.