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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Criminal provisions

Article L1128-1

…oduced below: "The fact of carrying out or having carried out on a person the research mentioned in 1° or 2° of article L. 1121-1 or a clinical trial mentioned in article L. 1124-1 of the Public Healt…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Advisory Committee

Article 232-34

…erating Aid Commission is made up of fifteen members appointed for a renewable term of three years: 1° A qualified public figure, chairman; 2° Three elected representatives of local and regional autho…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Public offerings

Article D764-1

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article R225-120

…issue and its terms and conditions by a notice containing, in particular, the following information:1° The company name, followed, where applicable, by its acronym;2° The form of the company;3° The am…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L322-26-2-1

…1st July 1991, any clause in the Articles of Association which makes participation in the General Meeting or the election of members of the General Meeting subject to the payment of a subscription fee…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L322-26-1-2

The articles of association of mutual insurance companies may specify a "raison d'être", consisting of the principles which they adopt and for which they intend to allocate resources in order to carry…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article 16-2

…n holding the rank of chamber president or councillor. These magistrates are appointed annually, together with three alternates, by the bureau of the Cour de cassation. The functions of the public pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Serial analysis files

Article 230-12

In order to gather evidence and identify the perpetrators, by establishing links between individuals, events or offences, of crimes and misdemeanours of a serial nature, the national police and gendar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Serial analysis files

Article 230-15

…rsons who are the subject of proceedings to investigate the causes of death or disappearance are deleted once the investigation has made it possible to find the missing person or to rule out any suspi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Serial analysis files

Article 230-16

The following shall be recipients of the personal data referred to in this section:

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