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Under the Ivorian Penal Code, how is the principle of retroactivity applied when a new criminal statute softens the applicable penalty or decriminalizes an act committed before the statute entered into force?

The new law applies retroactively to all pending cases that have not yet resulted in an irrevocable final judgment (Rétroactivité in mitius) The new law applies strictly to future acts and can never affect pending prosecutions under the non-retroactivity doctrine The new law applies only if the accused explicitly submits a formal request to the Ministry of Justice within 30 days The new law applies retroactively only if the initial offense was classified as a simple regulatory contravention

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The new law applies retroactively to all pending cases that have not yet resulted in an irrevocable final judgment (Rétroactivité in mitius)

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