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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-9

The information contained in the file shall be directly accessible, via a secure electronic communications system: 1° To the judicial authorities; 2° To criminal investigation officers, in the context…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Packaging units for rolling tobacco

Article R3512-24

…g tobacco may be: 1° Parallelepiped with characteristics that may be specified by order; 2° Cylindrical; 3° A pouch. II-The packaging unit complies with the size characteristics of the health warnings…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Practical procedures and deadlines in the event of unauthorised or incorrectly executed payment transactions

Article L133-24

…relating to that payment transaction in accordance with Chapter IV of Title 1 of Book III.Except in cases where the payment service user is a natural person acting for non-business purposes, the parti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Unused medicinal products for human use.

Article R4211-25

Producers or their eco-organisation may call upon wholesaler-distributors to supply pharmacies with the receptacles mentioned in article R. 4211-24, and to collect and transport these receptacles to t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article D48-18

…ify the acts which gave rise to the financial penalty under French law and shall determine the applicable limitation period in accordance with that classification. The limitation period runs, in Franc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Management and information costs and costs relating to the tasks of skills operators

Article R6332-22

If the ceilings are exceeded or if the objectives defined in Article D. 6332-18 are not achieved, the Minister responsible for vocational training will send the skills operator, by any means that prov…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial and accounting system

Article R7345-19

…xecutive Officer may set up revenue and imprest accounts under the conditions set out in Decree no. 2019-798 of 26 July 2019 on the revenue and imprest accounts of public bodies.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Water and sanitation.

Article D2573-22

I. - The first paragraphs of articles R. 2224-11 and R. 2224-15, articles R. 2224-19 to R. 2224-19-4 and R. 2224-19-6 to R. 2224-19-10 and articles R. 2224-20 and R. 2224-21 are applicable to the comm…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Composition of the jury

Article R2162-25

…competitions organised by purchasers other than those mentioned in articles R. 2162-23 and R. 2162-24, the members of the jury are appointed according to the rules specific to each establishment.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Other policies

Article L2213-25

…r his assigns fail to maintain an undeveloped plot of land or part of an undeveloped plot of land located within a residential area or at a maximum distance of 50 metres from dwellings, outbuildings,…

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