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French Customs CodeIn force
A. - Limitation period against debtors.

Article 353

…vis the debtors, three years after each expired year, from the custody of the registers of receipts and other documents of the said year, without being obliged to represent them, if there were still i…

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French Customs CodeIn force
B. - Prescription against the administration.

Article 354

Subject to article 354 bis, the administration's right of recovery is exercised within a period of three years from the chargeable event. The limitation period is interrupted by the notification of a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-310-3

…authorised to perform. As part of their practice, these practitioners must clearly inform patients and other recipients of their services in advance of the procedures they are authorised to perform.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: General principles relating to insurance mediation

Article R512-4

All intermediaries and ancillary intermediaries apply for registration on the Register of Intermediaries and for registration in the category or categories of intermediary in which they operate. To th…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions common to global contracts involving design services for a building project

Article D2171-4

…n of the execution of the works;5° Assistance to the project owner during the acceptance procedures and during the period of the guarantee of perfect completion.This work may also include sketch studi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Provisions applicable to the judicial supervision of dangerous persons convicted of a felony or misdemeanour

Article D147-41

…nt judge, including in the case of a person convicted of offences committed before 14 December 2005 and for whom judicial supervision has been ordered by the sentence enforcement court.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Provisions applicable to the judicial supervision of dangerous persons convicted of a felony or misdemeanour

Article D147-43

…wal of only part of the sentence reductions, judicial supervision will once again apply as of right and in all its obligations, upon the convicted person's release until the date set by the decision t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Provisions applicable to the judicial supervision of dangerous persons convicted of a felony or misdemeanour

Article D147-42

If judicial supervision includes placement under mobile electronic monitoring and the sentenced person refuses to have the monitoring device fitted before his release, in accordance with the provision…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Provisions applicable to the judicial supervision of dangerous persons convicted of a felony or misdemeanour

Article D147-44

…nce enforcement judge may, with the agreement of the sentenced person assisted by his or her lawyer and by judgment handed down in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 712-6, order his pl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General principles

Article D1611-41

1° For the application of Article L. 1611-3-2, local authorities, their groupings and local public establishments whose debt-reduction capacity, defined as the ratio between outstanding debt at the ba…

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