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Showing 43014310 of 22494 articles for Art. Cass. crim. 12 décembre 1994 n° 94-80155

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment

Article R4241-9

…nd examined in accordance with the procedures laid down by the order referred to in article R. 4241-12. The Prefect acknowledges receipt of the application within one month of its receipt and, where a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Maintenance and quality control obligations

Article R5212-17

…s who carry out their duties in one of the establishments or associations mentioned in article R. 5212-12, in particular when these users or third parties are members of the health professions or memb…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Commitments giving rise to a diversification provision

Article A134-1

For the application of Article R. 134-2, notwithstanding Article 142-3 of Regulation No. 2015-11 of 26 November 2015 of the Autorité des normes comptables relating to the accounting framework for insu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Validation and checks carried out by the presidents of the chambers of trades and crafts

Article L123-44

…level chamber of trades and crafts verifies that the natural persons mentioned in 3° of Article L. 123-36 and the corporate officers of the legal entities referred to in 3° of the same article are no…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Judicial police officers

Article 20

Subject to the provisions of article 20-1, the following are judicial police officers: 1° Members of the national gendarmerie, other than volunteers, who do not have the status of judicial police offi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 177

…on the existence of one of the grounds for lack of criminal responsibility provided for by articles 122-2,122-3,122-4,122-5 and 122-7 of the Penal Code or by the death of the person under investigatio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-9

The Minister for the Interior (Service National de Police Scientifique) is authorised to implement the automated processing of personal data referred to in Article 706-54, known as the "fichier nation…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to the transfer of the person for trial on the merits or for trial on the application of article 122-1 of the Criminal Code

Article D47-37-2

…ed, he or she shall order, in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 706-120, the transfer of the person to the competent trial court for a decision to be made in camera on…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to the various enforcement courts

Article D49-24

…gation to carry out an expert assessment of sentenced persons covered by the provisions of Article 712-21, the sentence enforcement judge or court may, in accordance with the provisions of Article D.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Offenders eligible for judicial supervision

Article D147-34

…ance with the provisions of Article 723-31, order a medical examination, the provisions of Article 712-21 requiring for certain crimes a duality of experts not being applicable to this expertise.If th…

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