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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Inspections and investigations

Article L621-12-1

At the request of a court hearing an action for damages, the Autorité des marchés financiers may transmit to the court any investigation or inspection reports in its possession, the production of whic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 122

The examining magistrate may, depending on the case, issue a warrant for search, appearance, bringing in or arrest. The liberty and custody judge may issue a committal order. A search warrant may be i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Accounting obligations applicable to all traders.

Article L123-21

Only profits made at the end of a financial year may be entered in the annual accounts. The profit made on a transaction that has been partially completed and accepted by the other party may be entere…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Rights and obligations attached to plant variety certificates

Article L623-21

The rights attached to an ex-officio licence may not be assigned or transferred.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Acquisition of French nationality by declaration of nationality

Article 21-13

French nationality may be claimed by declaration made in accordance with articles 26 et seq, persons who have enjoyed, in a constant manner, possession of the status of French national, during the ten…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 5 : Acquisition of French nationality by decision of the public authorities

Article 21-22

No one may be naturalised unless he or she has reached the age of eighteen. However, naturalisation may be granted to a minor child who has remained a foreigner even though one of his or her parents h…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 4: National guide-interpreter diploma.

Article D221-21

…y, cultural mediation, communication and tourism-leisure-accommodation-entertainment; 2° People who may or may not be working after validation of their studies, professional experience or personal ach…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Production approval

Article 211-57

The application for production approval may only be submitted by the delegated production company.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Flat-rate tax on network companies

Article 1519 D

…ters or in the territorial sea, whose installed electrical power within the meaning of articles L. 311-1 et seq of the Energy Code is greater than or equal to 100 kilowatts.II. - The flat-rate tax is…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Prevention and settlement of conflicts of jurisdiction between Member States of the European Union

Article D47-1-21

In order to avoid the negative consequences of the coexistence of parallel criminal proceedings against the same persons for the same acts in several Member States of the European Union, the French ju…

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