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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Judicial restraint

Article 750

The maximum duration of the judicial constraint is set as follows:

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 779

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the measures necessary for the implementation of articles 768 to 778, and in particular the conditions under which bulletins no. 1, 2 and 3 of the crimin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 706

The following may perform the duties of a specialist assistant to an investigating division mentioned in article 52-1 or a judicial court mentioned in articles 704 or 705 category A or B civil servant…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 793

Sont exonérés des droits de mutation à titre gratuit : 1.1° (Expired); 2° (Repealed); 3° interest shares held in a forestry group up to three-quarters of the fraction of the net value corresponding to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised inter-regional courts in economic and financial matters

Article 704

In cases which are or would appear to be of great complexity, due in particular to the large number of perpetrators, accomplices or victims or the geographical jurisdiction over which they extend, the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Member of the Special Negotiating Body and representative on the Committee of the European Company, the Committee of the European Cooperative Society or the Committee of the Company resulting from the cross-border merger

Article L2412-7

The termination of the fixed-term employment contract of a member of the special negotiating body or of a representative on the committee of the European Company, of a representative on the committee…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Costs.

Article 700

The judge shall order the party required to pay the costs or who loses his case to pay:1° To the other party the sum that he determines, in respect of the costs incurred and not included in the costs;…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section 2: Pre-trial proceedings before the Pre-Trial Judge

Article 795

Orders of the pre-trial judge and decisions given by the panel of judges pursuant to the ninth paragraph of Article 789 are not subject to opposition. An appeal or appeal in cassation may only be lodg…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 7

Public prosecution of crimes shall be barred after twenty years have elapsed from the day on which the offence was committed.Public prosecution of the crimes mentioned in Articles 706-16,706-26and 706…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Special schemes

Article 727

I. - 1° When they take place within three years of the definitive realisation of the contribution made to the company, transfers of shares in companies whose capital is not divided into shares are con…

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