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French Customs CodeIn force
A. - First class.

Article 414

The following are punishable by three years' imprisonment, confiscation of the object of fraud, confiscation of the means of transport, confiscation of objects used to conceal the fraud, confiscation…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Prosecution of offences.

Article 458

Infringements of the laws and regulations governing financial relations with foreign countries may only be prosecuted on the basis of a complaint by the Minister for the Economy and Finance or one of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Exercise of the right of appeal

Article 498

Without prejudice to Article 505, the appeal shall be lodged within ten days of the delivery of the contradictory judgment. However, the time limit for appeal only runs from the service of the judgmen…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Exercise of the right of appeal

Article 496

Criminal judgments may be appealed. Appeals are lodged with the Court of Appeal.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Exercise of the right of appeal

Article 499

If the judgment is rendered by default or by iterative default, the time limit for appeal only runs from the service of the judgment, regardless of the method of service..

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Wines and ciders

Article 434

It is forbidden to manufacture, dispatch, sell, offer for sale or hold with a view to sale, under the name of wine, cider, perry or mead, products that do not meet the definition given, for wine, by C…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Natural sweet wines

Article 416

The designation of "vin doux naturel" is reserved for wines whose production is traditional and customary:Vinified directly by the harvesting producers and made exclusively from their harvests of musc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Miscellaneous prohibitions

Article 432

Marc wines, sugar wines, piquettes and other wines that do not comply with the provisions of the Community regulations on the common organisation of the wine market, seized from the producer of these…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Product definition

Article 402

Any mixture with ethyl alcohol of bodies belonging to the chemical family of alcohols or having an alcohol chemical function, likely to replace ethyl alcohol in any of its uses when this mixture is in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1° : Definition

Article 428

1° (Repealed) 2° The product of the fermentation of fresh grape marc with water and sugar is considered to be sugar wine.

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