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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-11

No reconciliation or connection within the meaning of the article 33 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to data processing, files and freedoms may not be made between the file provided for in…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Special rules for certain categories of intermediaries

Article L513-7

…entioned in I, under the conditions and subject to the penalties set out in Articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Penal Code. This secrecy may not be invoked against the body that keeps the registe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII ter: Placement under mobile electronic surveillance as a security measure

Article 763-10

…itting a new offence. This examination is carried out by the sentence enforcement judge; the latter may seek the opinion of the multi-disciplinary committee for security measures composed in accordanc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Board of Directors

Article R1232-7

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Conversion of sentences

Article 747-1-1

…ng decision that does not allow the sentence imposed to be enforced, the sentence enforcement judge may ex officio, at the request of the person concerned or at the request of the public prosecutor or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Investigation, authorisation, refusal, renewal

Article R5121-74-3

…ification of the medicinal product in the categories listed in the second paragraph of article R. 5121-36 ; 5° The duration of the authorisation; 6° A statement that the therapeutic use and patient mo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conclusion and proof of the insurance contract - Form and transmission of policies.

Article R112-7

…ain a copy of the recording; c) that if they do not wish to be recorded, the telephone conversation may not continue and that the distributor is obliged to end it immediately; 2° Distributors shall in…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Assistance in recovering damages for victims of crime.

Article L422-7

…n two months of receipt of the request for recovery assistance formulated in application of article 706-15-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the guarantee fund grants the civil party full payment o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Special schemes

Article 730 quater

…fers of units in venture capital mutual funds, specialised professional funds covered by article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code as it stood prior to ordonnance no. 2013-676 of 25 July 20…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Powers and funding of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee

Article R1432-70-1

…with the conditions set out in article 63 and the second paragraph of article 93 of decree no. 2020-1427 of 20 November 2020 relating to administrative social committees in State administrations and p…

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