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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Personalised assessment and protective measures

Article D1-4

The personalised assessment is carried out by the judicial police officer or agent who interviews the victim. He mentions, in the victim's interview report or in any other document attached to the pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 6: Appointment of the examining magistrate.

Article D31-4

…offender, the public prosecutor may, in his submissions made pursuant to Article 86 and in accordance with the fifth paragraph of Article 52-1, request that the case be referred to this investigating…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Measures prior to placing under house arrest with electronic surveillance

Article D32-4

When an application for placement under house arrest with electronic surveillance is referred to him or when he is considering imposing such a measure, the investigating judge or the liberty and custo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The Public Prosecutor's Office

Article D15-4

…amber or the Criminal Appeals Chamber of the Court of Appeal, the Public Prosecutor may, in accordance with the provisions of the eighth paragraph of Article 41, issue requisitions for the purposes of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Staff reports and monitoring of the judicial activities of judicial police officers (Provisions adopted for the application of articles 13, 16, 19-1, 224 to 230 and R. 14 to R. 15-6 of the Code of Criminal Procedure)

Article D44-4

…ating established by the public prosecutor is brought directly to the attention of the judicial police officer, who may submit comments in writing within a period of fifteen days, at the end of which…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Specific powers of the President of the Investigating Chamber

Article D43-4

On pain of inadmissibility, the request by the person under investigation for the whole of the proceedings to be examined by the investigating chamber pursuant to the provisions of Article 221-3 shall…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article D45-4

Following the discovery of the offence, a notice of offence, a payment notice and a request for exoneration form, are sent to the person's home address by simple letter. When the offence is detected,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Bank charges

Article L753-4

…nch Polynesia, credit institutions, payment institutions, electronic money institutions and the Office des postes et télécommunications de Polynésie française shall, between 1 June and 31 July, at the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Bank charges

Article L752-4

…New Caledonia, credit institutions, payment institutions, electronic money institutions and the Office des postes et télécommunications de Nouvelle-Calédonie (New Caledonian Post and Telecommunication…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Loan categories

Article L754-4

…column of the same table: Articles applicable In their wording resulting from L. 313-7, with the exception of its 2 and 3 Law no. 2005-882 of 2 August 2005 L. 313-8 to L. 313-10 Order no. 2005-429 of…

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