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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Tattooing products

Article L5437-2

The following is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000: 1° For the person responsible for an establishment manufacturing, packaging or importing tattoo products, to open, operate…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Resolution of banking crises

Article R783-12

I. - The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, in the wording indicated in the ri…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Resolution of banking crises

Article R782-12

…subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table:A…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Société de gestion du fonds interprofessionnel de l'accès au droit et à la justice (Management company for the inter-professional fund for access to law and justice)

Article R444-39

…et à la justice comprises eight members:1° Two university professors, respectively agrégé de droit and agrégé de sciences économiques, co-chairs of the committee;2° A judicial administrator;3° A judi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5a: On the transmission and enforcement of freezing orders pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 on the mutual recognition of freezing orders and confiscation orders

Article 695-9-30-2

It shall be carried out under the conditions laid down in articles 695-9-22 and 695-9-24 of this Code for the application of Article 33 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 of the European Parliament and of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3241-1

The provisions relating to the legality control and budgetary control of the acts of departmental public establishments and departmental and territorial fire and rescue services are those laid down by…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-1-3

…nvicted persons or to appear in a specially designated place, category of place or area, the police and gendarmerie units may, on the instructions of the sentence enforcement judge or, if the second p…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Rights conferred by the trade mark

Article L713-3-1

In particular, articles L. 713-2 and L. 713-3, the following acts or uses: 1° Affixing the sign to the goods or to their packaging; 2° Offering the goods, placing them on the market or holding them fo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Complaints

Article L4163-17

…18 to L. 4163-20, disputes relating to decisions taken by the managing body pursuant to Sections 2 and 3 of this Chapter and to this Section 4 shall be settled in accordance with the provisions gover…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval.

Article R511-3-1

…omic Area, or authorised in a financial sector other than that in which the acquisition is proposed;2° or a subsidiary of the parent undertaking of an insurance undertaking, a reinsurance undertaking,…

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