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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 6: Provisions applicable to all bonded warehouses.

Article 157

1. When a new customs-approved treatment or use has not been given by the warehouse keeper at the end of the period for the goods to remain in the warehouse set by the administration or by the Communi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Special regulations concerning certain assets of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-14-2

…1°, 1° bis or 1° ter, the export, acquisition or operation of capital goods or infrastructure ; 1° quinquies Rights constituting the benefit of a trust whose assets are exclusively made up of receiva…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 4: The appeal.

Article 1241

The time limit for appealing against judgments ruling on a protective measure with regard to a person of full age runs: 1° With regard to the protected person of full age, from the notification provid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Municipalities and their groupings

Article L1422-1

…nical control of hygiene rules continue to exercise these powers by way of derogation from articles 38 and 49 of the said law. In this respect, the municipalities to which these municipal health and h…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Bookkeeping and deposit of funds.

Article R814-41-1

…ion apply to the persons mentioned in III of Article L. 812-2 with the exception of articles R. 814-38 and R. 814-41, including where they have been authorised to continue one or more cases in progres…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Shipment and conduct abroad of goods intended for export.

Article 119

1. Civil and military aircraft leaving the customs territory may only take off from customs airports. 2. The same provisions as those laid down in articles 78-1, 79, 80-1 and 81 of this Code shall app…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 12: Provisions relating to relations with the authorities of non-EU Member States in the context of a resolution procedure

Article L613-62-1

I. - A branch of a credit institution referred to in I of Article L. 511-10 or a branch of a third-country undertaking referred to in Article L. 532-48 may be subject to one or more of the measures re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Transmission of requests, notifications or service by electronic means of telecommunication

Article D593-1-1

I.-Service by electronic means under the provisions of the last paragraph of II of Article 803-1 may take place either when they are made to the Public Prosecutor, or when they are made at the request…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Criminal penalties

Article 1838

In the event of a repeat offence within ten years of a previous disciplinary decision that has become final, a public or ministerial officer who is found to have, in any way, been complicit in manoeuv…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Compulsory prior administrative appeal

Article R2333-120-14

When the contested payment notice has been notified by the Agence nationale de traitement automatisé des infractions, the rectifying payment notice is notified by the same means. The municipality, the…

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