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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 800-1

The costs of criminal, correctional and police justice shall be borne by the State and without recourse against the convicted person or the civil party, subject to the cases provided for in the last t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Citations and meanings

Article D46-4

The procedures for implementing service at a bailiff's office provided for by Article 558 are specified by this article. The bailiff may, at the request of the addressee, forward the copy of the writ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-24

A magistrate, responsible for monitoring the implementation of software covered by this chapter and ensuring that data is kept up to date, appointed for this purpose by the Minister of Justice, shall…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions specific to group actions

Article L1134-10

Where the action seeks compensation for the harm suffered, it shall be brought under the individual compensation procedure defined in Chapter I of Title V of Law 2016-1547 of 18 November 2016 on the m…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter V: Termination of the contract

Article L2195-5

…awarded to an economic operator on the grounds of a serious breach of the obligations laid down by European Union procurement law which has been recognised by the Court of Justice of the European Uni…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Transfers from one court to another

Article 664

When an accused person or defendant is being held in custody pursuant to a detention order or in execution of a conviction, the public prosecutor may, in the interests of the proper administration of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Transfer and transit.

Article 728-24

…ial languages of the State concerned or in one of the official languages of the institutions of the European Union accepted by that State.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Procedure

Article R743-8

When an order terminates the foreign national's detention and the public prosecutor considers that he does not need to request the first president to declare the appeal suspensive, he returns the orde…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1144

The information provided for in 1° of Article 229-2 of the Civil Code takes the form of a form for each of the minor children, which mentions their right to ask to be heard under the conditions of Art…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
c: Other procedural acts

Article R40-19

The commission's decision is given in open court. This decision is notified to the claimant and the judicial agent of the State either by delivery of a copy against receipt, or by registered letter wi…

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