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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Disciplinary powers

Article R612-51-1

When, in the cases provided for in the eleventh paragraph of Article L. 612-39 and in the last paragraph of B of I of Article L. 612-40 where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution has p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Implementing provisions

Article L1233-57-22

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the terms and conditions for the application of this section.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5141-5-2

…ompany holding the marketing authorisation shall inform the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety, beforehand or, in an emergency, at the same time, of any action it t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Detention

Article R57-5-2

Judicial solitary confinement may be ordered by the liberty and custody judge when deciding whether to remand a person in custody or to extend that detention.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Enforcement of criminal sentences

Article D48-5-2

The provisions of

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Management of the dedicated fund of Caisse des dépôts et consignations

Article R6241-28-5

A statutory auditor shall certify the annual accounts of the fund referred to in the second paragraph of II of Article L. 6131-4.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Other tobacconists

Article 504

It is forbidden for tobacconists to conceal drinks in their homes or elsewhere and for all owners or principal tenants to allow drinks belonging to tobacconists to enter their homes, without there bei…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 145-5

The remand in custody of a person who, during questioning by the investigating judge prior to referral to the liberty and custody judge, makes it known that that he/she has sole parental authority ove…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1397-5

Where a change to the matrimonial property regime occurs by application of a foreign law governing the effects of the union, the spouses shall carry out the publicity formalities provided for in the C…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Economic rights

Article L122-5-5

I.-In application of 13° of article L. 122-5 and subject to II of this article, libraries accessible to the public, museums, archive services or institutions holding film, audiovisual or sound heritag…

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