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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Deposit and seizure

Article L512-27

Conditioned products, objects or equipment shall be left in the custody of their holder or, failing that, deposited in a room designated by the authorised agents..

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French Commercial codeIn force
APPENDIX 7-8 (APPENDIX TO ARTICLE A. 752-3)

Article ANNEXE À L'ARTICLE A. 752-3

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE L. 752-23 OF THE CODE DE COMMERCEYou can consult the form at the following address: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jo_pdf.do?id=JORFTEXT000039216507

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-1

…mation maintained by the criminal records department under the authority of the Minister of Justice and the supervision of a magistrate. In order to prevent the repetition of the offences mentioned in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions applicable to personal injury offences resulting from deliberate intoxication

Article 706-139-1

…o the investigating judge on the basis of articles 221-5-6,222-18-4or 222-26-2 of the Criminal Code and decides to refer the person under investigation to the trial court on the basis of these offence…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-1-3

…nvicted persons or to appear in a specially designated place, category of place or area, the police and gendarmerie units may, on the instructions of the sentence enforcement judge or, if the second p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-6

…with the prior authorisation of the public prosecutor. The person is then informed of the measures and obligations to which they are subject pursuant to the provisions of article 706-53-5 and of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Revision.

Article L2261-7-1

…more trade union organisations representing employees in the field of application of the agreement and signatories or members of this agreement; 2° At the end of this period, one or more trade union…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-11

…the meaning of the article 33 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to data processing, files and freedoms may not be made between the file provided for in this chapter and any other file or col…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-8

…service managing the wanted persons file of the deletions it has made pursuant to articles 706-53-4 and 706-53-10.If it transpires that the person is no longer at the address indicated, the criminal i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3b: Hybrid specialities

Article R5121-9-7

…ter of hybrid groups indicates, for each medicinal product, its name, strength, pharmaceutical form and the name of the marketing authorisation holder and, if different from the marketing authorisatio…

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