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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Receipt of applications for judicial review decisions

Article 696-67

The competent public prosecutor is the one in whose jurisdiction the habitual and lawful residence of the person placed under judicial supervision is located or the one where the person requests to re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Receipt of applications for judicial review decisions

Article 696-69

Within three working days of receipt of the request and the decisions provided for in Article 696-66, the public prosecutor shall submit the request, together with his or her submissions, to the liber…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Recognition of judicial review decisions

Article 696-80

Unless further information has been ordered, the Investigating Chamber shall rule at the latest within twenty working days of the statement of appeal, by a reasoned order made in chambers. If the Inve…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Monitoring of judicial supervision decisions

Article 696-85

If the person placed under judicial supervision cannot be found on the territory of the Republic, the liberty and custody judge shall inform the competent authority of the issuing State of the impossi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Monitoring of judicial supervision decisions

Article 696-87

Where the liberty and custody judge has forwarded several notices pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 696-86 concerning the same person to the competent authority of the issuing State without…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Monitoring of judicial supervision decisions

Article 696-88

If the competent authority of the issuing State does not take a decision within the period specified by the liberty and custody judge, the latter may decide to terminate the monitoring of the measures…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1 : Examination for admission to the probationary period, probationary period and examination to qualify as a court-appointed administrator

Article R811-8

…s of the Diplôme d'études comptables supérieures previously governed by Decree no. 81-537 of 12 May 1981 relating to the Diplôme d'études comptables supérieures are considered, for the purposes of thi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Health and safety standards

Article A322-18

…ealth and safety standards applicable to swimming pools are set out in the amended Order of 7 April 1981 on the technical provisions applicable to swimming pools and the amended Order of 29 November 1…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Financial provisions.

Article L5215-36

…share is equal to the deduction made from the lump-sum allocations of the member municipalities in 1981, increased each year by the rate of increase in the lump-sum allocation.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Capital gains realised by individuals

Article 248 F

…86-1067 du 30 septembre 1986 relative à la liberté de communication dans sa rédaction applicable au 23 décembre 2020, aux échanges de titres participatifs mentionnés à amended Article 1 of Law no. 86-…

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