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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2a : Changing the sex designation in civil status records

Article 61-5

Any person of full age or an emancipated minor who demonstrates by a sufficient combination of facts that the entry relating to his or her sex in the civil status records does not correspond to the se…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 63-5

Custody in police custody must be carried out in conditions that ensure respect for the dignity of the person. Only strictly necessary security measures may be imposed on the person in police custody.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 60-5

With the exception of those carried out in the places mentioned in 2° and 3° of article 60-1, excluding the surroundings of these places, visiting rights may only be implemented in the same place for…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: Service of documents from abroad.

Article 688-5

The requesting party is required to advance the costs of service subject to existing international conventions.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article 530-6

For the application of the provisions relating to the fixed fine, the place of automated processing of nominative information relating to offences recorded by an official report drawn up in digital fo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Procedure before the Court of Revision and Reconsideration

Article 624-5

Applicants may, during the examination of their application, submit a written, reasoned request to the Commission d'instruction des demandes en révision et en réexamen (Revision and Reconsideration Ap…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Mutual assistance for the purposes of hearings, surveillance or infiltration

Article 694-5

The provisions of Article 706-71 shall apply to the simultaneous execution, on the territory of the Republic and abroad, of requests for mutual assistance from foreign judicial authorities or acts of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Conditions for extradition

Article 696-5

If, for a single offence, extradition is requested concurrently by several States, it shall be granted in preference to the State against whose interests the offence was directed, or to the State on w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 696-52

A decision to place a person under judicial supervision may give rise to transmission to the competent authority of another Member State of the European Union where: 1° The person concerned is habitua…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the transmission by the French judicial authorities of decisions relating to judicial supervision to the competent authorities of another Member State of the European Union

Article 696-56

The judicial authorities competent to decide on placement under judicial supervision pursuant to the provisions of this Code shall also be competent to place a person under judicial supervision in ano…

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