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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Receipt and investigation by the public prosecutor of the application for recognition and enforcement.

Article 728-36

Where, before transmitting the conviction and the certificate, the competent authority of the convicting State consults the Public Prosecutor, the latter shall inform him without delay if, pursuant to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Receipt and investigation by the public prosecutor of the application for recognition and enforcement.

Article 728-39

The public prosecutor may ask the competent authority of the sentencing State whether it consents to the sentenced person being prosecuted, sentenced or deprived of liberty in France for an offence co…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Receipt and investigation by the public prosecutor of the application for recognition and enforcement.

Article 728-38

…a request from a Member State for recognition and enforcement in France of a custodial sentence or detention order handed down by a court in that State, he or she shall ensure that the competent autho…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Receipt and investigation by the public prosecutor of the application for recognition and enforcement.

Article 728-34

…territory of convictions handed down by the courts of other Member States. He may also ask the competent authority of another Member State to forward to him a request for recognition and enforcement…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Transitional provisions relating to the solvency margin.

Article R334-32

…0-1, which comply with the same provisions, may obtain from the Autorité de contrôle des assurances et des mutuelles the removal of restrictive measures, such as mortgages, deposits or sureties, which…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Administrative approval

Article R382-3

…1, the supplementary occupational pension fund shall submit to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, for each half-year, a report on the implementation of the programme of operations…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-37

…court decision that has become final, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique may, at the request of any interested party, amend or terminate its injunction if new e…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: National Consumer Council

Article D821-3

…of these texts, including texts adopted in application of the article L. 410-2 du code de commerce et de l'article L. 112-1 of this code.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Provisions specific to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Article R917-30

…added:"The activities covered by the college representing activities in the agriculture sector are set by the order of the Prefect of the territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon relating…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: National guarantee fund for agricultural disasters.

Article R431-35

The available assets of the Fonds national de garantie des calamités agricoles are placed with the caisse centrale de réassurance in the assets mentioned in article R. 332-2. These assets are subject…

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