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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Remote access to correspondence stored by means of electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier

Article 706-95-2

…cess, without the knowledge of the person concerned, to correspondence stored via electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier. The data to which access has been granted may…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Remote access to correspondence stored by means of electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier

Article 706-95

…uthorise the interception, recording and transcription of correspondence sent via electronic communications in accordance with the procedures set out in the second and last paragraphs of Article 100 a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Remote access to correspondence stored by means of electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier

Article 706-95-3

The operations mentioned in articles 706-95-1 and 706-95-2 are carried out under the authority and control of the magistrate who authorised them and may not, on pain of nullity, have any purpose other…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Remote access to correspondence stored by means of electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier

Article 706-95-1

…ccess, without the knowledge of the person concerned, to correspondence stored by electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier. The data to which access has been granted may…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions specific to Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, Hospices civils de Lyon and Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Marseille

Article R6147-1

The Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, the Hospices civils de Lyon and the Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Marseille are university hospital centres, to which the provisions of Chapter II of Title…

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

Article 689-10

For the application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, opened for signature in New York on 10 January 2000, may be prosecuted and tried under the condit…

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

Article 689-11

Except in the cases provided for in Subtitle I of Title I of Book IV for the application of the Convention on the Statute of the International Criminal Court, opened for signature in Rome on 18 July 1…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Collection of technical connection data and interception of correspondence transmitted by electronic communications

Article 706-95-20

I.-It may be resorted to the installation and use of an apparatus or technical device mentioned in 1° of Article 226-3 of the Penal Code in order to collect technical connection data enabling the iden…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Conditions for holding office as mayor, deputy mayor, municipal councillor and arrondissement councillor

Article L2511-33

…article L. 2123-24, the III of article L. 2123-24-1, the articles L. 2123-25 to L. 2123-29, L. 2123-31 to L. 2123-35 and 3° of Article L. 2321-2 are applicable to mayors, deputy mayors and members of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Conditions for holding office as mayor, deputy mayor, municipal councillor and arrondissement councillor

Article L2511-34-2

Under conditions set by their internal regulations, the amount of the allowances that the Paris Council or the Marseille and Lyon City Councils allocate to their members is adjusted according to their…

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