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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title XVIII: Costs and expenses.

Article 695

…r as it is regulated including pleading fees ;8° Costs incurred by the service of a document abroad;9° Interpreting and translation costs made necessary by investigative measures carried out abroad at…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-1-3

…y, on the instructions of the sentence enforcement judge or, if the second paragraph of article 131-9 or the second paragraph of article 131-11 of the Penal Code, the sentence enforcement judge, refer…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-19

…er. The same applies when the sentencing court has set, pursuant to second paragraph of article 131-9 of the Criminal Code or the second paragraph of article 131-11 of the same code, a maximum term of…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Declaration of events with classification, timekeeping or timetable fixed in advance

Article R331-10

…a declaration, accompanied, where applicable, by the reasoned opinion referred to in article R. 331-9, to :1° The mayor or, in Paris, the police prefect, if the event takes place within the territory…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Admission to psychiatric care by decision of the State representative.

Article L3213-8

I.- If the panel mentioned in article L. 3211-9 issues an opinion to the effect that the measure of psychiatric care in the form of full hospitalisation to which a person mentioned in II of article L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Suppression of public drunkenness and protection of minors.

Article L3353-3

…red to in the first paragraph are liable to the additional penalties provided for in 2°, 4°, 8° and 9° of article 131-39 of the Criminal Code.For the offence referred to in the first paragraph of this…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Subscribing associations.

Article R141-6

…ed products may change; 8° The procedures for surrendering, transferring or paying policy benefits; 9° The option to take out loans granted by the insurance company. The General Meeting may delegate t…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Operations of strategic interest to the French economy abroad

Article R442-11-4

…he contribution of the transaction to one or more of the environmental objectives listed in Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 on the establishment of a framework for sustainable investment and ame…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 411-48

…within the limits set out in 2° of Article…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Rights of foreign nationals in waiting zones

Article R343-8

…provisions of Title IV, articles L. 821-3, L. 821-4, L. 821-5, L. 824-1, L. 824-3, L. 824-8, L. 824-9, L. 824-11 of this Code, and articles L. 521-1, L. 521-2 and L. 521-3 of the Code of Administrativ…

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