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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the family court

Article 373-2-10

…r parent or against the child, or unless one of the parents has a clear hold over the other parent, and, after obtaining their agreement, appoint a family mediator to carry it out, including in the de…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the family court

Article 373-2-12

Prior to any decision setting the terms and conditions for the exercise of parental authority and visiting rights or entrusting the children to a third party, the judge may commission any qualified pe…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the family court

Article 373-2-13

…r in the divorce agreement by mutual consent in the form of a private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary, as well as decisions relating to the exercise of parental authority, may be…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Buying group structures.

Article D5125-24-16

…cle L. 5125-24. The structure referred to in the first paragraph may only purchase, in its own name and on its own behalf, and store medicinal products with a view to their wholesale distribution to i…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Traffic and parking regulations

Article L2213-4-2

…facilitate the detection of breaches of traffic regulations adopted pursuant to Article L. 2213-4-1 and to enable evidence of these offences to be gathered and their perpetrators to be tracked down, f…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the conditions of transmission of samples to medical biology laboratories established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article D6221-31

…ed by the competent authorities of the State in which the laboratory is located. If the declaration and attachments are not in French, they must be accompanied by a certified translation. A receipt is…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Undercover procedures, sound recordings and images of certain places or vehicles

Article D15-1-3

…ational Police, the Director General of the National Gendarmerie or the Director General of Customs and Excise.This authorisation may only be granted on the proposal of the National Director of the Ju…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition

Article L541-1

…stment advisers are persons who engage in the following activities on a regular professional basis: 1° Investment advice as referred to in 5 of article L. 321-1 ; 2° (Repealed) 3° Advice on the provis…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Examination of an application for authorisation

Article R151-10

…gn government or public body. He may also refuse, by reasoned decision, to authorise an investment: 1° If there is a serious presumption that the investor is likely to commit one of the offences or th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Definitions

Article R152-11

For the application of this Title : 1° The territory referred to as "France" means: mainland France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pier…

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