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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41

The public prosecutor carries out or arranges for the carrying out of all acts necessary for the investigation and prosecution of offences against criminal law. To this end, he directs the activities…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 40

The Public Prosecutor receives complaints and denunciations and assesses the action to be taken on them in accordance with the provisions of article 40-1.Any constituted authority, any public officer…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 42

The public prosecutor has, in the exercise of his duties, the right to directly request the force publique.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 43

The public prosecutor of the place where the offence was committed, the public prosecutor of the place of residence of one of the persons suspected of having taken part in the offence, the public pros…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Penalties involving deprivation of rights.

Article 433

1. Any person found by a court of law to have abused a suspensive procedure may, by decision of the Director General of Customs and Excise, be excluded from the temporary admission procedure and be de…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Penalties involving deprivation of rights.

Article 432

1 In addition to the penalties provided for in this Code, anyone found guilty of having participated as an interested party in any way whatsoever in a smuggling offence or an offence of importing or e…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Occupational health medical file

Article R4624-45-4

The occupational health medical file includes the following elements: 1° Identity data, including the national health identifier referred to in Article L. 1111-8-1 of the Public Health Code, the medic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Appearance of the accused

Article 407

In the event that the accused, the civil party or the witness does not sufficiently speak the French language, or if it is necessary to translate a document submitted to the debates, the president sha…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Appearance of the accused

Article 412

If the summons has not been delivered to the person of the accused, and if it has not been established that he was aware of the summons, the decision, in the event of the accused's failure to appear,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Appearance of the accused

Article 408

If the defendant is deaf, the presiding judge will automatically appoint a sign language interpreter or any qualified person who has mastered a language or method of communicating with the deaf to ass…

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