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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 62

…23 October 2018 on controls of cash entering or leaving the EU and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1889/2005, Chapter II of Title V of Book I of the Monetary and Financial Code and Regulation (EU) No 95…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IX: Overseas provisions.

Article R940-3

…with jurisdiction in French Polynesia shall be determined in accordance with the tables in Annexes 9-2 and 9-3 to this code.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Formalities

Article R521-18

Amendment registration requests relating to a lien or pledge referred to in I. of Article R. 521-9 are also made at the Institut national de la propriété industrielle in the registers determined in II…

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

Article 689-5

…s against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf, done at Rome on 10 March 1988 and revised at London on 14 October 2005, may be prosecuted and tried under the conditions laid…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers

Article L511-12

…ters of food safety ;-Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004, as amended, on the hygiene of foodstuffs, with the exception of the provisions applica…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to securitisation undertakings

Article D214-237

…pean Economic Area and which has received the authorisation provided for in Article 46 of Directive 2005/68/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2005 on reinsurance;2° The c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Departmental and territorial fire and rescue services

Article D1424-32-3

…d, in overseas departments, by department. This apportionment takes into account, as from 1 January 2005, the subsidy to be paid to the fire and rescue service of the departmental community of Mayotte…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee.

Article R2573-50

…Polynesia is carried out under the conditions set out in articles R. 2334-1, R. 2334-3 and R. 2334-9-1 to R. 2334-9-3.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia.

Article R936-1

…les in appendices 6-1 and 6-2 of this book" are replaced by the words: "in the tables in appendices 9-2 and 9-3 of this book".

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 237 septies

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