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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article D571-4

…rvices implementing educational measures ordered by the judicial authority pursuant to l'ordonnance n° 45-174 du 2 février 1945relative à l'enfance délinquante or of articles 375 to 375-8 of the Civil…

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French Commercial codeIn force
APPENDIX 7-10 (APPENDIX TO ARTICLES A. 762-2 TO A. 762-4 AND A. 762-9)

Article Annexe VII

…ata identified as optional, responses are mandatory to enable your request to be processed. The loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés grants you the ri…

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French Commercial codeIn force
APPENDIX 7-10 (APPENDIX TO ARTICLES A. 762-2 TO A. 762-4 AND A. 762-9)

Article Annexe XI

…ata identified as optional, responses are mandatory to enable your request to be processed. The loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés grants you the ri…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Safeguard measures

Article R385-25

I. - When, as part of the results of the stress tests mentioned in Article L. 385-3, a supplementary occupational pension fund presents, for one of the projected financial years and one of the scenari…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Recognition of convictions and probation decisions

Article 764-24

Enforcement of the sentence or probation decision shall be refused in the following cases:1° The certificate is not produced, is incomplete or manifestly does not correspond to the sentence or decisio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Death certificate

Article R2213-1-4

I.-Exceptionally, when the death has not occurred in a public or private health establishment or in an accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people mentioned in the article L. 313-12 of th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R1413-1

To carry out its missions, the National Public Health Agency : 1° Identifies, gathers, analyses, updates and disseminates information, data and knowledge about the state of health of populations and t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reorganisation and winding-up measures for Community credit institutions

Article R613-28

I.-A security, claim, instrument or right is deemed to be unstructured within the meaning of 4° of I of Article L. 613-30-3 a security, claim, instrument or right that has the following characteristic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Deposit guarantee mechanism and resolution funding mechanism

Article L312-5

I. - The deposit guarantee scheme shall be implemented at the request of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution as soon as the latter ascertains that a credit institution is no longer in…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Obligation to register.

Article A512-1

The file referred to in article R. 512-4 includes :1° Where the applicant is a natural person, the applicant's identity, the address of the establishment where the professional activity is carried out…

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