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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 98

Subject to the requirements of judicial information, any communication or disclosure without the authorisation of the person under investigation or his successors in title or the signatory or recipien…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 92

The investigating judge may visit the scene to make any useful observations or carry out searches. He shall notify the public prosecutor, who may accompany him. The investigating judge is always assis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 90

If the investigating judge does not have jurisdiction under Article 52, it shall, after hearing the Public Prosecutor's case, make an order referring the civil party to such court as it sees fit.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 96

…sses. The investigating judge must comply with the provisions of the Articles 57 (paragraph 2) and 59. However, it is obliged to take all appropriate measures in advance to ensure that professional se…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 97

When it is necessary, during the course of an investigation, to search for documents or computer data and subject to the requirements of the investigation and compliance, where applicable, with the ob…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 91

When, after an investigation opened on the basis of a civil party's complaint, a decision has been made to dismiss the case, the person under investigation and any other persons referred to in the com…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 93

If the needs of the investigation so require, the examining magistrate may, after giving notice to the public prosecutor of his court, travel with his clerk throughout the national territory, in order…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Form, statements and registration of retail declarations.

Article 97

It is forbidden to present as a unit in the declarations several closed packages joined together in any way whatsoever.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Form, statements and registration of retail declarations.

Article 95

1. Declarations must be made in writing except where, in application of Community regulations in force, an oral declaration is substituted.1 bis. In the cases for which the list and conditions of appl…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Form, statements and registration of retail declarations.

Article 98

1. Persons authorised to lodge accounting declarations, where they are not in possession of the information necessary to draw them up, may be authorised to examine the goods before declaration and to…

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