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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Interest rates

Article R314-13

The annual effective rate of insurance is accompanied by a statement of the cover for which it includes the cost.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Budgetary and financial provisions

Article R144-1

An expenditure budget and an estimate of income are prepared for each financial year. They are sent to the members of the General Council, the Censor and his alternate at least two weeks before the da…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to the recognition and enforcement by the French judicial authorities of a European Investigation Order issued by another Member State

Article D47-1-19

When, for the execution of a European investigation request issued by a Member State to another Member State, a detained person must transit through national territory, such transit shall be authorise…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to the recognition and enforcement by the French judicial authorities of a European Investigation Order issued by another Member State

Article D47-1-18

The provisions of Article D. 47-1-7 are applicable in the case provided for by article 694-44, the transfer to national territory of a person detained in the issuing State for the purposes of executin…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Electronic invoicing standard

Article D2192-1

The electronic invoicing standard referred to in Article L. 2192-3 is that set by European Commission Decision (EU) 2017/1870 of 16 October 2017 on the publication of the reference of the European sta…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle III: Victims' rights

Article R2-15-1

The categories of personal data and information likely to be recorded in the processing are:

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Optional taxes

Article 1530

I. - Communes may, by a resolution passed under the conditions provided for in I of Article 1639 A bis, institute an annual tax on commercial wasteland located on their territory. However, public esta…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers

Article L511-11

Officers are empowered to investigate and record breaches of the provisions of Book IV and Article L. 521-1, to the section 2 of Chapter I of Title II and to the section 1 of Chapter I of Title III of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-122-1

Veterinarians alone are authorised to administer, in the cases provided for in Article L. 5143-4, to equidae declared as being intended for slaughter for human consumption, medicinal products for huma…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-123-10

The application for authorisation to import a proprietary veterinary medicinal product in parallel is accompanied by a dossier comprising :1° For each presentation, a sample of the proprietary medicin…

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