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Showing 48614870 of 56635 articles for Art. Decree 2023-1409 of 29-12-2023

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Intermediary parent companies

Article L517-11

…dentiel et de résolution shall ensure that an intermediate parent undertaking is set up at the head of a group whose parent undertaking is established in a third country where the total value of its a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds

Article L2335-1

I.-In order to provide them with the appropriate means to implement the provisions of Chapter III of Title II of Book I of this Part and to contribute to the democratisation of local mandates, small r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Members of the criminal jury

Article R142

Jurors detained away from their residence by the performance of their duties are entitled to a daily subsistence allowance calculated under the conditions laid down by

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Execution of judgments in absentia

Article R193

It is allocated to the bailiffs for affixing each of the three extracts of the judgment of conviction in absentia which must be displayed, in accordance with Article 634, and for drawing up the report…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Members of the criminal jury

Article R141

…stification, a transport allowance calculated under the conditions set for travel by civil servants of the State.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Members of the criminal jury

Article R144

Sessional and subsistence allowances for the duration of the session are payable for each day on which the regular or additional juror was present at the call to contribute to the formation of the jud…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Expenses arising from the appointment of ad hoc administrators

Article R216-1

In the event of the opening of a judicial investigation, an advance of up to Iaah2 may be granted by the investigating judge to the ad hoc administrator, at his request, if the latter submits, during…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Execution of judgments in absentia

Article R192

For posters of the order which, under articles 627 and 628, must be rendered and published against the contumaxes, including the minutes of the publication, the bailiffs are awarded compensation of 1.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Members of the criminal jury

Article R146

When a juror is unable to meet the costs of his or her travel, he or she shall be issued, if he or she so requests and upon presentation of an order issued by the president of the judicial court of hi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Expenses arising from the appointment of ad hoc administrators

Article R216

In addition to the reimbursement of their travel expenses, calculated in accordance with the conditions laid down for travel by civil servants for the Ministry of Justice, each person appointed as an…

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