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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 257

…conomic, Social and Environmental Council; 2° Member of the Council of State or of the Court of Auditors, magistrate of the judiciary, member of the administrative courts, magistrate of the commercial…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article L743-2

…s mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the provisions of II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Applic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article L742-2

I.- Subject to the provisions of II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Operations

Article L762-2

…cles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in New Caledonia, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same ta…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Operations

Article L763-2

…s mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same ta…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-20

…egistered for at least five years on the date of the incident and whose articles of association aim to defend the moral and material interests of tenants, owners and lessors of multi-family residentia…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-27

Software covered by this chapter may only be authorised by decree in the Conseil d'Etat issued after consultation with the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés. This decree shall spe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Liability in the event of an incorrectly executed payment transaction

Article L133-22-2

If the payment service provider providing a payment initiation service is responsible for the non-execution, defective execution or late execution of the payment transaction, it shall immediately comp…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Post-exposure or post-occupational monitoring

Article R4624-28-2

…service, as soon as he is aware of it, of the cessation of exposure of one of the company's workers to particular health or safety risks justifying enhanced individual monitoring, of his departure or…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Applicable procedures

Article R2372-2

For project management contracts that meet a need whose estimated value is equal to or greater than the formal procedure thresholds, the purchaser may use: 1° a restricted invitation to tender under t…

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