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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Infiltration

Article 706-85

…the absence of an extension, the undercover agent may continue the activities mentioned in Article 706-82, without being criminally liable, for the time strictly necessary to enable him to cease his…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 707-2

In criminal or police matters, any convicted person may pay the amount of the fixed procedural fee due pursuant to article 1018 A of the General Tax Code and, where applicable, the amount of the fine…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 710-1

…of the courts that handed down the sentences have jurisdiction. The last two paragraphs of Article 710 of this Code shall then apply. If one or more of the sentences handed down are criminal sentence…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 6: Provisional arrest.

Article 728-67

The person appears before the liberty and custody judge assisted, if necessary, by his or her lawyer. The hearing is held in public, unless publicity would be detrimental to the smooth running of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Growth market for small and medium-sized enterprises

Article L424-7

The Autorité des marchés financiers shall register a multilateral trading facility as a small and medium-sized enterprise growth market at the request of its operator, after verifying that at least 50…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Obligations of members and the company.

Article R322-75

In the event of force majeure resulting from adverse weather conditions or epizootic diseases of an exceptional nature, a decree issued on the report of the Minister for the Economy and Finance and th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction common to all commercial courts

Article L721-7

…with a tonnage of twenty tonnes or more, in the cases and conditions provided for by the Code du domaine public fluvial et de la navigation intérieure.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Guarantees and allowances granted to members of the regional economic and social council.

Article L4134-7

…maximum allowances set for members of the regional council by the articles L. 4135-16 and L. 4135-17. This allowance is modulated according to members' attendance at meetings of the Board or its form…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Provisions relating to the recognition and monitoring, in the territory of other Member States of the European Union, of convictions and probation decisions handed down by French courts

Article 764-11

…decision or probation decision and the original or a copy of the certificate referred to in Article 764-6. He shall also send that authority a translation of the certificate either into the official l…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Allocation of the special profit-sharing reserve.

Article L3324-7

…aforementioned article and those of the first paragraph of this article, could not be distributed remain in the special employee profit-sharing reserve to be distributed during subsequent financial ye…

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