General instructions
Priorities of prosecution are set in writing by the head of the service, published, and name no person, no enterprise and no case.
Article 225(2): general instructions upon the priorities of prosecution are given in writing by the head of the service alone, are published, and in no case name a person, an enterprise or a case.
Instructions in force
GI-2026-03 · issued 20 June 2026
Offences against the physical accounts
Concealment and falsification of a physical account are given priority where the quantities concerned bear upon an ecological ceiling. Files transmitted by the Audit Office under Article 251(2) are examined within sixty days of receipt.
GI-2026-02 · issued 4 March 2026
Refusal to furnish what an oversight office requires
Refusal is an offence. Files are examined on receipt, and a decision is taken within thirty days, since the refusal is a continuing obstruction to a body the Constitution charges with publication.
GI-2025-07 · issued 11 September 2025
Reprisal against a person who furnished information
Reprisal is an offence. Such files are given priority, and the identity of the person who furnished the information is protected throughout, with the redactions Article 51 requires.
GI-2025-04 · issued 2 May 2025
Offences within places of detention
Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are prohibited. Files arising from the reports of the detention division of the Defender of Rights are examined on receipt and are never held pending another proceeding.
Limits on an instruction
A general instruction may not name a person, an enterprise or a case. An instruction stating a priority by class of offence is lawful. An instruction directing what is to happen in a particular matter is an instruction in an individual case, and Article 225(1) places that beyond every organ outside the service.
Instructions within the service
Every instruction given within the service must be in writing, placed on the file of the case, and disclosed to the parties. A party therefore reads the instructions that shaped the handling of their own case.
A prosecutor may refuse an instruction they consider unlawful, and the refusal goes on the file in writing.