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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Application for authorisation

Article R212-7-6

If the application is incomplete, the Prefect, within fifteen days of receipt of the application, will invite the interested party, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, to provide add…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Penalty procedure

Article R423-11

The accused person shall be summoned to appear before the Regulatory Control Commission by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, by hand delivery against receipt, by bailiff's deed or by…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R121-10

During the course of the proceedings, any party may also present its case by letter addressed to the enforcement judge, provided that it can prove that the opposing party was aware of it before the he…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 2: Attachment

Article R222-24

If the holder claims a right of his own to the seized property, he shall inform the bailiff of this by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, unless he made a declaration to this effect at…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Police powers relating to specific objects

Article L2213-30

The mayor must order the necessary measures to ensure the sanitation of communal ponds located in the interior of villages or in the vicinity of dwellings, whenever these ponds compromise public healt…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-20

Release from judicial supervision, house arrest under electronic surveillance or modification thereof may be ordered at any time by the investigating chamber under the conditions set out in Article 19…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Preliminary subsection: Prohibition on using the services of a person who has been the subject of an anti-doping sanction

Article R232-41-16

Federations shall inform the French Anti-Doping Agency, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by any means that guarantees the origin and receipt of this transmission of information,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Extension and enlargement procedures.

Article L2261-24

The procedure for extending a branch agreement or a professional or cross-industry agreement is initiated at the request of one of the representative employers' or employees' organisations mentioned i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Scope of negotiations

Article L2312-20

A group agreement may provide that consultation on the strategic guidelines is carried out at group works council level. It lays down the procedures for transmitting the opinion of the group works cou…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Chiropodists.

Article L4322-14

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat, issued after consulting the Conseil national de l'ordre des pédicures-podologues, lays down the rules of the code of ethics for chiropodists. The provisions of this cod…

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