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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Offenders eligible for judicial supervision

Article D147-34

…assess the need for judicial supervision, the sentence enforcement judge and the public prosecutor may, in accordance with the provisions of Article 723-31, order a medical examination, the provision…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Periodic examinations.

Article R4626-26

…ery twenty-four months. Medical examinations or, pursuant to the first paragraph of article R. 4623-31, nursing interviews may be carried out more frequently, at the discretion of the occupational phy…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Authorisation for creation or transfer

Article R5126-87

The provisions of the first paragraph of article R. 5126-31 and, subject to article R. 5126-71, of article R. 5126-33 are applicable to the pharmacies for internal use of the Paris fire brigade and th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition and operation

Article R321-44

…pean Economic Area, as well as a description of the main problems encountered in applying Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005, as amended, on the rec…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Applicable regulations

Article R8293-4

…an identity photograph that does not comply with the standards set out in article 6-1 of decree no. 2005-1726 of 30 December 2005 relating to passports constitutes valid grounds for not issuing the ca…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 1: Advertising under ordinary law

Article R322-32

…R. 322-31 and at the request of the pursuing creditor, a simplified notice is a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions adapting Book VII.

Article R927-2

…3-6, the following article is inserted:"The ballot box vote provided for in Article 16 of Order no. 2005-43 of 20 January 2005 is organised for the election of members of the Mayotte Chamber of Commer…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L431-2

…y via the information system provided for in the last paragraph of article 7-2 of law no. 90-449 of 31 May 1990 aimed at implementing the right to housing.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Title XVI: Controls on cash transported by bearer or forming part of a consignment without the intervention of a bearer to or from abroad.

Article 465

…3 October 2018 on controls of cash entering or leaving the EU and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1889/2005 is investigated, recorded and punished under the conditions set out in Article L. 152-4 of the…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Measures to boost film production

Article 916-3

…and 411-11, for applications submitted between 1 October 2020 and 30 April 2021 and also between 1 May 2021 and 31 October 2021 for sums invested for production, when the following conditions are met…

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