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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Repeal of expulsion decisions

Article L632-7

…ubject to the reservations set out in these articles, in the categories mentioned in 1°, 2°, 3° and 4° of article L. 631-3 and fall within the scope of articles L. 423-1 or L. 423-7 or Chapter IV of T…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Calculation of time limits.

Article 645

The increases in time limits provided for in articles 643 and 644 apply in all cases where they are not expressly derogated from. The time limits for judicial appeals in election matters are subject t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
7: Information to be provided by the owner

Article 78

Whether it is a farm lease or a sharecropping lease, the owner is required, each time the lease is renewed or amended, to submit to the administration, within three months, a declaration indicating th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Pension entitlement

Article 767

…ased has expressly declared that such a legacy shall be paid in preference to the others, article 927 shall apply.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-7

Once a reference medicinal product, within the meaning of 5° of Article L. 5121-1, or a reference biological medicinal product, within the meaning of 15° of the same Article, is covered by a compassio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-32

Property other than sums of money confiscated pursuant to the confiscation order may be sold in accordance with the provisions of the Code du domaine de l'Etat. The sums of money recovered and the pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-13

…nfiscation order and certificate shall be sent in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 713-4 or sent to the public prosecutor at the criminal court with territorial jurisdiction, either d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-28

If several confiscation orders issued against the same person relate either to a sum of money and that person does not have sufficient assets in France for all the orders to be enforced, or to the sam…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-30

…n authorisation order once it has become final in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 707 and shall inform the competent authority of the issuing State by any means that leaves a written…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-31

The Public Prosecutor may postpone the execution of a confiscation order in the following cases: 1° Where the confiscation order relates to a sum of money and the amount recovered is likely to exceed…

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