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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-23

…ers granted to the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés by the aforementioned loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978, the processing of personal data is carried out under the supervision of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Local bodies

Article R6147-7-2

The Chairman of the Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris Institutional Medical Committee may delegate all or some of the following powers to the Chairman of the local Institutional Medical Committee…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of the European arrest warrant

Article 695-20

For the cases referred to in 3° of articles 695-18 and 695-21, the request for consent shall be sent by the public prosecutor to the judicial authority of the executing Member State. It must contain,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of acquiring French nationality

Article 22-2

The provisions of the preceding article shall not apply to a married child.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Assignment of receivables as security

Article 2373-2

…spect of the assigned claim shall be set off against the secured claim when due. If this is not the case, the assignee retains them under the conditions set out in articles 2374-3 to 2374-6.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to portfolio management companies

Article L533-22-2-2

…t shall include at least those systems which enable the asset management company to obtain, in most cases, the best possible result for the execution of orders. Asset management companies shall provid…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28-2

I.-Category A and B tax department agents, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation and operation

Article R6147-2

Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, Hospices civils de Lyon and Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Marseille are headed by a Chief Executive Officer.The Chief Executive of Assistance publique-hôpitaux…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Declarations of nationality

Article 26-1

Any declaration of nationality must, on pain of nullity, be registered either by the director of the judicial registry services of the judicial court, for declarations subscribed in France, or by the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Enforcement procedure

Article 695-28

Following notification of the European arrest warrant, if he decides not to release the wanted person, the public prosecutor shall present him to the first president of the court of appeal or the judg…

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