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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Terms of office of board or committee members

Article R5211-4

…r calculating the maximum allowances received for the actual performance of the duties of president and vice-president of one of the public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation mentioned in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Tax system

Article 402

Any mixture with ethyl alcohol of bodies belonging to the chemical family of alcohols or having an alcohol chemical function, likely to replace ethyl alcohol in any of its uses when this mixture is in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: The Examining Magistrate

Article 49

The investigating judge is responsible for carrying out the information, as set out in Chapter I of Title III. He may not, on pain of nullity, participate in the judgment of criminal cases that he has…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 44

…olice courts within his jurisdiction. He may report to them any contraventions of which he is aware and order them to prosecute. He may also, if necessary, request that an investigation be opened..

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41

…prosecutor carries out or arranges for the carrying out of all acts necessary for the investigation and prosecution of offences against criminal law. To this end, he directs the activities of the offi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 40

The Public Prosecutor receives complaints and denunciations and assesses the action to be taken on them in accordance with the provisions of article 40-1.Any constituted authority, any public officer…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 42

The public prosecutor has, in the exercise of his duties, the right to directly request the force publique.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 43

…he place where one of these persons was arrested, even when the arrest was made for another reason, and the public prosecutor of the place where one of these persons was detained, even when the detent…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Consultation documents

Article R2162-42

The purchaser shall specify in the consultation documents the nature of the purchases envisaged and their estimated quantity, as well as all the necessary information concerning the dynamic purchasing…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Selection of economic operators participating in the dynamic purchasing system

Article R2162-44

The minimum time limit for receipt of applications shall be thirty days from the date on which the contract notice is sent or, where the call for competition is made by means of a prior information no…

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