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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-61-3

…ies for convening the meeting have been completed, the notice of meeting referred to in article R. 225-66 recalls the right to object to the exclusive use of dematerialised means to hold general meeti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for processing applications

Article R1142-63-8

…or manufacturers of the medicinal product concerned and the other persons referred to in Article L. 1142-2 to whom the applicant wishes to enforce the procedure, as well as the social security organis…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Transfers of sums, securities or assets.

Article R152-6

I.-The declaration provided for in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1672 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on controls of cash entering or leaving the Union and the dec…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 698-2

…compensation for damage caused by one of the offences mentioned in the first paragraph of articles 697-1 or 697-4 belongs to those who have personally suffered damage directly caused by the offence.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Wholesale distribution

Article R5124-62

The depositories defined in 4° of article R. 5124-2 carry out their activities under the conditions set out in a written contract which, in accordance with the good practices provided for in article L…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Powers

Article LO6314-6

…orial waters, excluding: 1° Areas classified as nature reserves on the date of the Loi organique n° 2007-223 du 21 février 2007 portant dispositions statutaires et institutionnelles relatives à l'outr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Territorial Conference on Health and Autonomy

Article D1441-6

…stry and Trades; d) A representative of agricultural businesses and farms appointed by the Prefect. 4° Collège des acteurs de la cohésion et de la protection sociale: a) A representative of the social…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Obligations arising from marriage

Article 207

…he creditor has himself committed a serious breach of his obligations towards the debtor, the judge may discharge the debtor of all or part of the maintenance debt.In the event of the creditor's convi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to requests for information by the French services

Article 695-9-34

The information obtained may only be used as evidence with the consent of the Member State that transmitted it.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-39

When information held by the services and units mentioned in Article 695-9-31 have been transmitted to them by a Member State on the basis of the provisions of Framework Decision 2006/960/JHA, they ma…

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