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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Common provisions

Article 706-105-1

…own initiative or at the request of these services, information of any kind contained in these procedures and necessary for the performance of their mission in terms of the security and defence of inf…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General principles

Article L1611-7-2

…ised body of the reimbursement of revenue wrongly collected and the recovery and clearance of any undue payments resulting from such payments. II. II.The mobility organising authorities mentioned in a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-4

…on with a dispensation or deferment of sentence; 2° A decision, even if not yet final, imposing an educational measure, a dispensation from an educational measure or a declaration of educational succe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-4

…he information transmitted in application of article R. 5121-76-2, the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Healt…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article L5217-10-7

…ay be revised.Payment credits constitute the upper limit of expenditure that may be ordered or paid during the year to cover commitments contracted under the corresponding programme authorisations.The…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-6

I. - Except when the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé makes use of the derogation mentioned in V of article L. 5121-12-1, the compassionate prescription framework is…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXI: Witness protection

Article 706-62-2

…ial court, to use an assumed identity. However, this assumed identity may not be used for a hearing during the proceedings referred to in the first paragraph. Disclosing that a person is using an assu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 795-0 A

…ative assistance agreement with France to combat tax fraud and evasion, the exemption from transfer duty for free is not applicable, except where the donee or legatee has produced, within the time lim…

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French Commercial codeIn force
APPENDIX 7-8 (APPENDIX TO ARTICLE A. 752-3)

Article ANNEXE À L'ARTICLE A. 752-3

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE L. 752-23 OF THE CODE DE COMMERCEYou can consult the form at the following address: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jo_pdf.do?id=JORFTEXT000039216507

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Relations between credit institutions and their customers

Article L312-1-7

…g mobility available to their customers, free of charge and unconditionally, on paper or on another durable medium, at their premises and in electronic form on their website.III. - The receiving insti…

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