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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-25

Only the following may use the software covered by this chapter:1° Employees of the departments mentioned in article 230-20, individually designated and specially empowered, for the sole purposes of t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 258-1

…reason likely to justify exclusion from the list of jurors. The committee provided for in Article 262 may also exclude persons who, for a serious reason, do not appear to be able to perform jury duty…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Professional non-trading companies

Article R422-25

…ject to the provisions of articles 40 to 47 of decree n° 78-704 of 3 July 1978. The General Meeting may only validly deliberate if at least three quarters of the members are present or represented. If…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter II: Special rules applicable throughout the customs territory to certain categories of goods.

Article 215

…decrees.Any person holding goods designated for the first time by the order referred to in 1 above may, before the expiry of a period of six months from the date of publication of the order, make a w…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-subparagraph 3: Filings attached to the National Register of Companies

Article R123-251

…er of the Minister of Justice; 3° In the case of affected assets within the meaning of Article L. 526-6, the descriptive statement provided for in Article L. 526-8 and, where applicable, the documents…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: The conciliation procedure

Article 130

The content of the agreement, even if partial, is recorded in minutes signed by the parties and the judge or in a report signed by the parties and the mediator, as appropriate.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions relating to the creation process

Article D331-25

…ation" sub-group is awarded a total of 2 points if the video game is based on a detailed narrative; 6° The "Publishing in three languages" sub-group is awarded a total of 1 point if the original versi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Compulsory licences for patents relating to the manufacture of pharmaceutical products for export to countries with public health problems

Article R613-25-3

The holder of the compulsory exploitation licence may request the Minister responsible for industrial property to amend the conditions of the licence in order to be able to supply additional quantitie…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 5: Data retention

Article R142-21

Any file that has not been updated within five years of the recording of the first data it contains shall be deleted, except in the following cases: 1° A file containing data relating to a residence p…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4°: Reporting obligations

Article 223 Q

…declaration of overall income for each financial year under the conditions provided for in Article 223. It attaches a statement of grants and debt write-offs not used to determine the overall result…

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