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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article R131-43

The Banque de France shall provide bankers, finance companies, electronic money institutions and payment institutions, at their request, with information relating to cheque payment incidents recorded…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article R131-45

At least once a month, the Banque de France sends all bankers information on the lifting of bans resulting from new court rulings. Recipients are deemed to be aware of the lifting of bans no later tha…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article R131-32

The banker shall notify the Banque de France of account closures other than those resulting from a transfer to its establishment and of stop payments as referred to in article L. 131-84 as soon as pos…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article R131-44

All bankers must question the Banque de France before issuing cheque forms to a new account holder for the first time. The answers must be kept for two years.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable persons

Article 8 ter

The members of sociétés civiles professionnelles constituted for the joint practice of the profession of their members and operating in accordance with the provisions of loi n° 66-879 du 29 novembre 1…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers

Article L511-9

In the performance of their duties, authorised agents may record infringements and breaches of Chapters I and III of Title I, and Chapters I, II, III, and IV of Title II of the loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIc: Enforcement of sentences and probation decisions in application of the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 27 November 2008

Article 764-15

The French judicial authorities shall once again have jurisdiction, at the initiative of the executing State, in the event of non-compliance with the obligations or injunctions mentioned in the senten…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIc: Enforcement of sentences and probation decisions in application of the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 27 November 2008

Article 764-14

…nt authorities of the executing State, by any means which leaves a written record, of any circumstances or findings brought to his attention which appear to him to be such as to give rise to a modific…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIc: Enforcement of sentences and probation decisions in application of the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 27 November 2008

Article 764-17

Where the sentence is the subject of an amnesty, pardon or revision having the effect of depriving it, immediately or otherwise, of its enforceability, the public prosecutor shall inform the competent…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIc: Enforcement of sentences and probation decisions in application of the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 27 November 2008

Article 764-10

Before transmitting the sentencing decision or the probation decision and the certificate, the public prosecutor may consult the competent authority of the executing State. Such consultation is mandat…

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