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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV: Procedure applicable to breaches of automated data processing systems

Article 706-72-3

…the acts referred to him do not constitute one of the offences falling within the scope of Article 706-72 and do not fall within its jurisdiction on any other grounds, this judge shall declare that h…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV: Procedure applicable to breaches of automated data processing systems

Article 706-72-6

Any order made on the basis of articles 706-72-2 or 706-72-3 by which an examining magistrate decides to relinquish jurisdiction or by which the examining magistrate of the Paris Judicial Court decide…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised courts

Article 706-75-1

…ation and, in the case of misdemeanours, the trial of offences falling within the scope of Articles 706-73, with the exception of 11° and 18°, 706-73-1 or 706-74. Honorary magistrates exercising juris…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised courts

Article 706-75-2

…iction of one or more courts of appeal for the trial of crimes falling within the scope of articles 706-73, with the exception of 11°, 706-73-1 or 706-74, in cases that are or would appear to be of gr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised courts

Article 706-79-1

…e Court of Appeal, within whose jurisdiction there is a court with jurisdiction pursuant to Article 706-75, leads and coordinates, in consultation with the other public prosecutors in the inter-region…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Placement under electronic surveillance

Article 723-7-1

…y the sentence enforcement judge by a decision taken in accordance with the provisions of l'article 712-6. If the personality of the sentenced person or the means available justify it, the sentence en…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIa: Socio-judicial supervision

Article 763-7-1

…e than eight days, in accordance with the procedures laid down by the decree referred to in article 763-9. If the offender is summoned to appear before the prison integration and probation service, th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-7

Once a reference medicinal product, within the meaning of 5° of Article L. 5121-1, or a reference biological medicinal product, within the meaning of 15° of the same Article, is covered by a compassio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Continuous evaluation of the risk-benefit ratio and transmission of new data

Article R5121-74-7

In order to be able to continuously assess the benefit/risk balance of the medicinal product, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may at any…

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

Article 148-7

When the person under investigation, the accused or the defendant is detained, the application for release may also be made by means of a declaration to the head of the penitentiary establishment. Thi…

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