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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Transparency and disclosure requirements

Article L326-3

…hts is distributed or paid to rights holders by a legal entity that is a member of the organisation and to which the organisation has allocated the income, the organisation will provide it with the in…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Deposits and deposits on account

Article L214-3

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to special orders based on quotations or to sales of products the manufacture of which is undertaken to the buyer's special order.

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

Article 9-3

Any obstacle of law, provided for by law, or any insurmountable obstacle of fact that can be assimilated to force majeure, which makes it impossible to initiate or pursue public action, suspends the s…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 56-3

Searching the offices of a doctor, notary or bailiff shall be carried out by a magistrate and in the presence of the person in charge of the professional order or organisation to which the person conc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 61-3

…President of the Bar: 1° Assist her when she takes part in an operation to reconstruct the offence; 2° Be present at a suspect identification session of which she is a part. The person is informed of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 60-3

…rty shall mention the operations carried out in a report drawn up in accordance with the articles 163 et 166.The operations mentioned in the first paragraph of this article may be carried out by the t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 63-3

…mined a second time. The doctor will decide whether the detainee is fit to remain in police custody and will make any useful observations. Except in the case of insurmountable circumstances, the inves…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 62-3

…nder the supervision of the public prosecutor, without prejudice to the prerogatives of the liberty and custody judge provided for in articles 63-4-2 and 706-88 to 706-88-2 in relation to extending th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 135-3

…ision that has become res judicata, the file manager is informed so that the provisions of article 135-2.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Checking and recording offences

Article L425-3

The persons referred to in article L. 425-2 who are qualified doctors may carry out clinical medical examinations and take biological samples intended to reveal the use of prohibited methods or to det…

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