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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Financial investment advisers

Article L773-31

…right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In the version resulting from L. 541-1 law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 L. 541-2 Act no. 2010-1249 of 22 October 2010 L. 541-3 law no. 2003-706…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Financial investment advisers

Article L774-31

…right-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 541-1 law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 L. 541-2 Act no. 2010-1249 of 22 October 2010 L. 541-3 law no. 2003-706…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Financial investment advisers

Article L775-25

…right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 541-1 law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 L. 541-2 Act no. 2010-1249 of 22 October 2010 L. 541-3 law no. 2003-706…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: European investigation decisions under Directive 2014/41/EU of 3 April 2014

Article 694-18

…requested pursuant to Article 40 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreements of 19 June 1990.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Information on the social conditions under which products are manufactured

Article D113-1

…ork on 1 March 1980; 4° The Convention on the Rights of the Child, signed in New York on 26 January 1990; 5° The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (together with an Optional Protoc…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Principal penalties

Article L823-2

…gn national:1° On the territory of another State party to the Schengen Convention signed on 19 June 1990;2° On the territory of another State party to the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 6: Sociétés de participations financières de professions libérales d'administrateurs judiciaires ou de mandataires judiciaires (financial holding companies for the liberal professions of court-appointed administrators or agents)

Article R814-158

…e professions libérales constituées, en application du titre IV de la loi n° 90-1258 du 31 décembre 1990 relative à l'exercice sous forme de sociétés des professions libérales soumises à un statut lég…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 202

It may, of its own motion or at the request of the Public Prosecutor, order that he or she be informed in respect of the persons under investigation or defendants referred to it on all the counts of c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-9

For the purposes of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, opened for signature in New York on 12 January 1998, may be prosecuted and tried under the conditions laid d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder or in the event of recognition of impairment of judgement

Article 706-136-1

When a person convicted in the circumstances mentioned in the second paragraph of Article 122-1 of the Penal Code has not been sentenced to socio-judicial supervision, the sentence enforcement judge m…

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