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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Interrogations and confrontations

Article 116-1

In criminal matters, questioning of accused persons carried out in the chambers of the investigating judge, including questioning at first appearance and confrontations, shall be subject to audiovisua…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Interrogations and confrontations

Article 114-1

Subject to the provisions of the sixth paragraph of Article 114, it is a criminal offence for a party to whom a reproduction of the documents or records of an investigative procedure has been given pu…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Combating sexual harassment

Article 122-17

The granting and payment of any financial assistance is subject to compliance by the beneficiary with its obligations to prevent sexual harassment and to implement measures to put an end to it and pun…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Impossibility of performance

Article 1351-1

Where the impossibility of performance results from the loss of the thing due, the debtor put on notice is nevertheless discharged if he proves that the loss would have occurred in the same way if the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 5: Safeguard of justice.

Article 1252-1

If it appears that the consistency of the property does not justify the affixing of seals, the public prosecutor or the guardianship judge may request any bailiff, the police commissioner, the command…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 5: Safeguard of justice.

Article 1251-1

May obtain from the public prosecutor a copy of the declaration for the purposes of safeguarding justice mentioned in the first paragraph of article 1251 or of the decision of the guardianship judge p…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Simultaneous application of several penalties

Article 1729 A

1. Where adjustments made to a return filed on time are subject to penalties that do not have the same rate, the penalties are calculated by adding the adjustments to the items declared in descending…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Infringements relating to other documents

Article 1729 C

Failure to file within the prescribed period any of the declarations mentioned in article 1406, article 1496 ter, in III of article 1518 ter and in VI of article 146 of law no. 2019-1479 of 28 Decembe…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
11: Offences committed by account holders.

Article 1740 C

Unless the first paragraph of Article L. 564-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code, failure by an account holder to remit, under the conditions set out in Article L. 102 AG of the Book of Tax Procedure…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
B: Authorisation of national police judicial police officers

Article R15-6-1

When serving in the national police's operational reserve, retired national police officers who were judicial police officers during their active service may be authorised, under the terms and conditi…

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