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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to requests for information by the French services

Article 695-9-33

…ere are reasons to assume that a Member State holds information falling within the scope of Article 695-9-31 useful for the prevention of an offence or for investigations to establish proof thereof or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-38

If there are facts to suggest that information referred to in Article 695-9-31 could be useful to another Member State either in preventing an offence falling within one of the categories listed in Ar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-47

An order of the Minister for Justice, the Minister for the Interior and the Minister for the Budget shall designate the contact points to which requests for the transmission of information may be addr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Special rules relating to sociétés de placement à prépondérance immobilière à capital variable (real estate investment companies with variable capital)

Article L214-69

…e distributable income relating to income from the assets referred to in 1° of I of article L. 214-36, in respect of the financial year in which they were realised. To determine the amount to be distr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Surrender procedures resulting from agreements concluded by the European Union with other States.

Article 695-58

For the application of Article 695-46, in the context of the surrender procedures provided for in this section, consent shall be refused to a State that is not a member of the European Union if the of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IX: Specific provisions relating to assets held in sub-ledger accounts

Article R332-66

As part of the auxiliary accounting operations referred to in article R. 342-1, the undertaking referred to in article L. 310-3-2 may only enter into contracts constituting forward financial instrumen…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Special cases

Article 695-41

…te or on the initiative of the executing judicial authority, in the manner provided for in Article 56, by the first two paragraphs of Article 56-1, by articles 56-2, 56-3, 56-5 and 57 and by the first…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section: Units for difficult patients.

Article R3222-6

When the medical monitoring committee provided for in article R. 3222-4, to which a referral may be made by the psychiatrist in charge of the unit for difficult patients, finds that the conditions ref…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Poisonous substances and preparations.

Article L5132-6

Lists I and II mentioned in 4° of Article L. 5132-1 comprise :1° (Repealed) ;2° Medicinal products for human use likely to present a direct or indirect danger to health ;3° Medicinal products for huma…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article R621-6

…Each section comprises one member chosen from among the persons mentioned in 1° of IV of Article L. 621-2, one member chosen from among the persons mentioned in 2° of IV of Article L. 621-2, three mem…

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