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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 695-9-2

…interest in such property, which the judicial authority of the issuing State considers to be the proceeds of an offence or to correspond in whole or in part to the value of such proceeds, or to be the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 695-9-3

Any decision to freeze assets shall be accompanied by a certificate issued by the judicial authority that ordered the measure and containing the following information: 1° Identification of the judicia…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 695-9-4

The property freezing order shall be accompanied by a request for enforcement of an order for confiscation of the property. Failing this, the certificate shall contain an instruction to retain the pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 695-9-1

…r Member State, known as the executing State. The judicial authority shall be competent, in accordance with the rules and under the conditions determined by this Section, to take and transmit to the j…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Rules of conduct

Article L521-6

…The distributor has notified the subscriber electronically of the address of the website and the place on the site where the information can be found; 4° Access to the aforementioned information on th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 695-9-31

For the application of Council Framework Decision 2006/960/JHA of 18 December 2006, the services or units of the national police, the national gendarmerie, the Directorate-General for Customs and Exci…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 695-9-32

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 11 relating to the confidentiality of investigations, any information or data exchanged shall be confidential. The procedures for transmitting and storin…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title IX: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R*595-1

…ons are applicable in French Polynesia in their wording resulting from Decree no. 2020-1734 of 16 December 2020, unless otherwise stated or mentioned as applying automatically in the table below.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Election of consular delegates

Article R713-50

…t to the prefecture of the department in which the headquarters of the territorial chamber of commerce and industry is located, which draws up a summary statement. Under penalty of nullity of the vote…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L311-6

…e, on the basis of the private reproductions of which each work is the subject. III.A portion not exceeding 1% of the sums derived from private copy levies is allocated by these organisations to finan…

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