Communications with lawyers are made by ordinary letter, with the exception of the order closing the investigation and the notice of hearing, which are served by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.
As an exception to the first paragraph, lawyers registered in a system allowing the electronic communication of procedural documents under the conditions defined by the order provided for in article R. 532-8 shall be deemed to have received the communication or notification on the date of first consultation of the document sent to them in this way, certified by the acknowledgement of receipt issued by the computer application, or, in the absence of consultation within a period of eight days from the date on which the document was made available in the application, at the end of this period. Unless they request otherwise, lawyers are alerted to any new communication or notification by an electronic message sent to the address they have indicated.
When the president of the Cour nationale du droit d’asile or the president of the panel designated to rule alone pursuant to Article L. 532-6, the communication or notification is deemed to have been received as soon as it is made available in the application.