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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Disclosure of accounts.

Article R232-21

As soon as the filing provided for in Article L. 232-23 has been made, the Registrar of the Commercial Court shall cause to be inserted in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees and representation in outside bodies

Article L7222-23

…ts, under the conditions provided for in Article L. 7223-2, the Assembly of Martinique may form its committees and appoint its members or delegates to sit on outside bodies. The Martinique Assembly ma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article R50-70

…the anti-terrorist public prosecutor asks the head of the prison and the sentence enforcement judge competent to take decisions concerning this person to send him/her information concerning his/her cr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Obligations incumbent on the person entered in the file

Article R53-8-18

…gement of receipt sent to the department managing the file. The supporting documents must then be accompanied by or bear a visa issued either by the foreign authorities or diplomatic or consular posts…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV - GEOLOCALISATION

Article R53-40-3

…custody judge's decision, the public prosecutor's opinion and, where applicable, the investigators' report are placed in a file separate from the proceedings file, which is kept by the president of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: The multi-disciplinary committee for security measures and assessment of dangerousness

Article R61-11

…the receipt signed by the person concerned to the sentence enforcement judge. A copy of the entire report is given to the lawyer at his request.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article D11

…f a flagrante delicto or preliminary investigation, judicial police officers may relate in a single report the operations carried out during the same investigation. If several judicial police officers…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Foreign financial relations

Article L732-5

…L. 151-2 ; 3° Articles L. 151-3 to L. 151-7. : II.-For the application of I, decrees issued on the report of the ministers responsible for overseas departments and territories and for the economy set…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Apprenticeship programme authorisation procedure

Article R1161-18

…fter transmission to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé of the report referred to in Article R. 1161-25.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Corrective measures, restrictions on use, interruption of distribution, exemptions, information and advice for consumers

Article R1321-28-1

…21-3-1 and the vigilance values defined in article R. 1321-15-1 are not met and the Prefect, on the report of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, considers that the distribution presen…

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