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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Data communication service providers

Article L774-39

The articles listed in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Coordination of powers between the European Public Prosecutor, the Deputy European Public Prosecutors and the French judicial authority

Article 696-135

Where, in the cases referred to in Article 25(6) of the aforementioned Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017, the public prosecutor to whom the investigation has been referred refuses t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions adapting Book II.

Article L912-3

…"as well as by the employees of a société coopérative de production within the meaning of the loi n° 78-763 du 19 juillet 1978 portant statut de sociétés coopératives de production" are deleted.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article R1612-31

The prefect shall refer the matter to the regional audit chamber, pursuant to the provisions of article L. 1612-20, when the accounts of the municipal or inter-municipal public establishment show a de…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Publicising and monitoring early access authorisations

Article R5121-73

I.-The Haute Autorité de santé makes public, on its website, all decisions concerning authorisation, refusal, withdrawal, suspension, renewal and modification of early access, summaries of the summary…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Mediators responsible for facilitating the resolution of disputes relating to the granting of authorisation for simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission

Article R324-6

The matter may also be referred to the mediator by one of the parties. He shall inform the other parties of this request, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, within eight days, and t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Suspended probation

Article 745

Where the person sentenced to a term of imprisonment suspended on probation must comply with the obligation to refrain from appearing in a specially designated place or area, in order to avoid contact…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Fundamental missions

Article L141-6-1

When the Banque de France becomes aware, in the course of its duties, of an emergency situation as defined in Article L. 613-20-5, it shall alert as soon as possible the Autorité de contrôle prudentie…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Other guarantees

Article R2391-27

In the event of the termination of a contract which has not provided for a retention of guarantee, where a period is granted to the contractor under the conditions laid down in article R. 2391-20-2 to…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Admission of new communes.

Article L5215-40-1

Within three years of the publication of the loi n° 99-586 du 12 juillet 1999 relative au renforcement et à la simplification de la coopération intercommunale, le périmètre des communautés urbaines pe…

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