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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Serial analysis files

Article 230-12

In order to gather evidence and identify the perpetrators, by establishing links between individuals, events or offences, of crimes and misdemeanours of a serial nature, the national police and gendar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Background files

Article 230-9

…g the implementation and updating of the automated processing of personal data mentioned in article 230-6 and appointed for this purpose by the Minister of Justice, contributes to the application of a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Exercise of control

Article L612-23

The Secretary General of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution organises off-site and on-site inspections. The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall carry out inspectio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Conditions for exceptional designation

Article L2143-23

Notwithstanding article L. 2142-1-1 and where, due to a failure in the first round of professional elections, a trade union delegate could not be appointed within the company or establishment or where…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal dissemination of inventions

Article L612-23

The National Institute of Industrial Property shall issue, at the request of any interested person or at the request of any administrative authority, a documentary notice citing the elements of the st…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Temporary employment agencies.

Article L6325-23

Temporary employment agencies may conclude fixed-term professionalisation contracts in application of article L. 1242-3. The professional activities related to the courses received are then carried ou…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Financial provisions.

Article L5214-23

…rity mentioned in article L. 5212-24, the communal share under the conditions set out in article L. 2333-2 in place of municipalities whose population as recorded by the Institut national de la statis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-36

…h shall be determined by decree, to install and remove the technical means referred to in l'article 230-32.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VIII : Taxation of capital gains on the disposal of building land

Article 238 terdecies

The articles 238 nonies to 238 duodecies apply when the transfer takes place at least two years after the acquisition. However, the tax deferral may not exceed five years. Articles 238 nonies to 238 d…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: The commercial freelance administration contract

Article L1254-23

The contract concluded in writing shall include the following clauses and information: 1° the identity of the employee concerned; 2° a description of the skills, qualifications and areas of expertise…

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