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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV: Procedure applicable to breaches of automated data processing systems

Article 706-72

…omated information processing system, shall be prosecuted, investigated and judged according to the rules of this Code subject to this Title.Articles 706-80 to 706-87, 706-95 to 706-103 and 706-105 of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions applicable before the Examining Magistrate and the Examining Chamber

Article 706-119

If the investigating judge considers, when his investigation appears to be complete, that he is likely to apply the first paragraph of Article 122-1 of the Criminal Code relating to a person's lack of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General information

Article L525-5

…s activity that meets the conditions mentioned in this paragraph, the company is not subject to the rules applicable to electronic money issuers. The means of payment mentioned in this article remain…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Professional secrecy, accounting and statutory auditing

Article L522-20

…Article L. 314-1 and the related activities referred to in Article L. 522-2, in accordance with the rules defined by regulation of the Autorité des normes comptables (French Accounting Standards Autho…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Forward financial instruments of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-53

…and Financial Code; c) Third-country credit institutions or investment firms subject to prudential rules considered equivalent by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution; d) Insurance co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Injunctions to perform

Article L238-7

Any person may ask the president of the court ruling in summary proceedings to enjoin, if necessary under penalty, the board of directors, the management board, the managers, the legal representative…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-17

…ing or on the occasion of auctions and sales of furniture by public auction, in accordance with the rules applicable to such sales. Clauses intended to exclude or limit their liability are prohibited…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: The judgment adopting the plan and the implementation of the plan.

Article L626-14

In the judgment adopting the plan or amending it, the court may decide that assets that it considers essential to the continuation of the business may not be disposed of, for a period that it fixes, w…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Transfer of the business.

Article L642-10

The court may stipulate in the judgment approving the sale plan that all or part of the assets transferred may not be disposed of, for a period that it shall determine, without its authorisation. Temp…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Procedure applicable to exceptions to copyright and related rights and to the transmission of digital files used to publish printed works

Article R331-40

When the rapporteur finds that conciliation between the parties is possible pursuant to the provisions of the first paragraph of Article L. 331-32 and in compliance with Article R. 331-33, he draws up…

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