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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 54 bis

The taxpayers referred to in Article 53 A are required to provide, at the same time as the income tax return for each financial year, a statement indicating the allocation of each of the passenger veh…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-15

I.-The right to object does not apply to this processing pursuant to Article 23 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-20

Where it has not been taken in the course of the investigation, enquiry or trial proceedings, the sample shall be taken, on the instructions of the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor and in ac…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIII: The use of means of telecommunication during proceedings

Article R53-33

For the application of the provisions of

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIX: Special seizures

Article R53-55

By way of derogation from Article R. 521-20, the deletion of the registration shall be requested by the Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets, which shall produce in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-9

The Minister for the Interior (Service National de Police Scientifique) is authorised to implement the automated processing of personal data referred to in Article 706-54, known as the "fichier nation…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Appointment of an ad hoc administrator

Article R53-8

Within three months of the completion of his mission, the ad hoc administrator shall send the authority that appointed him a report detailing the steps taken to carry out the mission defined in articl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Request for rectification, deletion or restriction of the obligation to submit data

Article R53-8-28

The competent magistrate must inform the interested party of his decision by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt within two months of receipt of the request. This period is extended to f…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-14-3

The competent magistrate must inform the interested party of his decision by registered letter within three months of receipt of the request, either by himself or by the public prosecutor of the inter…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIX: Special seizures

Article R53-52

The registration of seizures of business assets made on the basis of Article 706-157 shall be entered in the register kept by the registrar of the commercial court or of the judicial court ruling in c…

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