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Showing 761770 of 22073 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 31 Mar. 2015 – no. 14-10.346

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Public prosecutor's delegates and mediators

Article R15-33-31

The natural person or legal entity, depending on whether it wishes to be authorised in the jurisdiction of the judicial court or in that of the court of appeal, shall apply to the public prosecutor or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Processing of criminal records

Article R40-31-1

On receipt of a request for rectification or deletion, the territorially competent public prosecutor or the magistrate referred to in Article 230-9 shall inform the interested party of his decision by…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Provisions applicable before the Court of Cassation

Article R*49-31

…y is raised in the course of an appeal, the separate pleading provided for in article 23-5 of Order no. 58-1067 of 7 November 1958 shall bear the words: "priority question of constitutionality". The o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Request for rectification, deletion or restriction of the obligation to submit data

Article R53-8-31

If the request is granted, the public prosecutor may, within ten days, contest this decision before the president of the investigating chamber. This challenge suspends the execution of the decision.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Obligations to report to the Deputy European Public Prosecutor

Article D47-1-31

I.-The following offences must be reported if they affect revenue received, expenditure incurred or assets which come under the budget of the European Union, the budgets of the institutions, bodies, o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Investor information

Article D214-31-2

The annual and half-yearly reports are published within the following deadlines, starting from the end of the periods to which they refer:1° Four months for the annual report ;2° Two months for the ha…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Master and feeder undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities

Article R214-31-1

I. - Notwithstanding articles R. 214-24 and R. 214-26, a feeder UCITS may invest up to 100% of its assets in units or shares of a single master UCITS governed by French or foreign law and hold up to 1…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Investment rules.

Article D214-32-31

I. - The shares or units of general-purpose investment funds, other than those referred to in Article L. 214-26-1, marketed in France, as well as the shares or units of FIAs governed by foreign law ma…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Drawing up and updating the national list of medical accident experts.

Article R1142-31-1

I.- Candidates who have never carried out expert appraisals or whose expert appraisals submitted when applying for inclusion on the list referred to inarticle L. 1142-11 do not allow them to be consid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4-1: Remuneration and compensation of members and experts

Article R1313-31-1

The members of the Monitoring Committee, the members of the specialist expert committees, the members of the Scientific Advisory Board from the College of Qualified Scientists, the members of the Ethi…

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