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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Branches of insurance undertakings whose head office is situated in a State which is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R329-1

…R. 321-5, R. 321-14, R. 321-16 to R. 321-18, if this undertaking is authorised to carry on insurance business under the national legislation to which it is subject and if it undertakes to establish…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Fees

Article R623-31

…agraph of Article L. 623-16 is payable for the first time on the date of issue of the plant variety certificate. It must be paid within two months of the notification made by the national plant variet…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Refusal and termination

Article D551-18

The decision to end material reception conditions taken pursuant to article L. 551-16 shall be in writing, give reasons and be taken after the applicant has been given the opportunity to submit writte…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for initial applications for clinical trials on medicinal products

Article R1124-10

…rd observations relating to ethics on the answers provided by the sponsor within 10 days of their receipt. The provisions of the second and third paragraphs of article R. 1124-8 apply to the committee…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article R50-79

…the exercise of the powers provided for in the fifth paragraph of I of Article 706-25-16, the Sentence Enforcement Judge of the Paris Judicial Court shall appoint the penitentiary integration and prob…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Monitoring compliance with trading platform rules and other obligations

Article D420-3

The AMF shall communicate to the European Securities and Markets Authority and to the competent authorities of the other Member States of the European Union or parties to the Agreement on the European…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Bailiffs

Article R444-49

…econd paragraph of article 16 of decree no. 56-222 of 29 February 1956, a bailiff entrusts the service of a document to a colleague, the corresponding emolument is paid to the bailiff initially seized…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Town planning (R).

Article R1614-17

…m/her, and of the decision ruling on this application; 2° A copy, completed by him/her, of planning certificates and prior declarations ; 3° A copy of the declarations of commencement and completion o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database

Article D47-12

…sic experts may, in order to carry out DNA identification analyses at the request of a judicial police officer, the public prosecutor or the investigating judge, not take the written oath provided for…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article D4231

…n threshold set by the deliberation provided for in 16° of article L. 4221-5 of this code may not exceed 200 euros. After examining the proposals sent by the public accountant relating to irrecoverabl…

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