#2004-204Law Adapting Justice to Crime Trends (France)
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This law in France establishes special procedures for dealing with organized crime and delinquency, emphasizing more robust investigative tools and coordinated judicial processes. It empowers specific judicial authorities to handle complex cases and allows for extended surveillance, interception of communications, and infiltration operations to combat organized crime effectively.
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Key Changes
- Introduction of special procedures for handling organized crime.
- Empowerment of specific judicial authority for complex cases.
- Enhanced tools for surveillance and infiltration.
Obligations
What this law requires
Establish specialized sections within the prosecutor's office and specialized formations for instruction and judgment within designated tribunals de grande instance to handle organized crime cases
Apply extended territorial competence allowing prosecutors, investigating judges, and specialized correctional formations to exercise concurrent jurisdiction across the entire district of one or more courts of appeal for complex organized crime cases
Notify parties and invite them to provide observations before an investigating judge renders an order on transfer of competence to a specialized jurisdiction; provide minimum 8 days and maximum 1 month to render the order
Transfer case files to the competent prosecutor of the Republic at the specialized tribunal de grande instance within five days once a competence transfer order becomes final
Allow parties and the public ministry to challenge competence transfer orders within 5 days of notification by referring to the chambre de l'instruction or chambre criminelle de la Cour de cassation