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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article R612-20-1

…g to the authorisation or empowerment of the persons referred to in 2° of A of I ofArticle L. 612-2 and decisions relating to the authorisation of credit institutions providing investment services.II.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article R612-29-1

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution has four months to rule on an application for approval of all or part of a code of conduct submitted pursuant to Article L. 612-29-1. During this p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article D621-29-1

…621-5-3 is set at 20,000 euros when the issuer's market capitalisation is less than 2 billion euros and more than 1 billion euros, at 70,000 euros when the issuer's market capitalisation is less than…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article 142-2

…ared for all the acts of the proceedings, has complied with the obligations of judicial supervision and has submitted to the enforcement of the judgment. If this is not the case, unless there is a leg…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article 141-2

…er the conditions set out in the fourth paragraph of article 137-1, refer the matter to the liberty and custody judge for the purposes of remand in custody. Regardless of the prison sentence incurred,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article 138-2

…n for a crime or for an offence mentioned in article 706-47, the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge may, ex officio or at the request of the public prosecutor, decide in his order to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Compulsory acts

Article 276-1

…his or her individual detention file. The meeting is held in the presence of the public prosecutor and the lawyers for all the parties, if necessary by any means of telecommunication, in order to see…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Compulsory acts

Article 269-1

…o the proceedings, of the notice of the end of the judicial investigation or of the committal order and where this failure is not the result of a manoeuvre on his part or of his negligence, he may sub…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Compulsory acts

Article 272-1

…essure being put on victims or witnesses. The provisions of this paragraph also apply to persons remanded for related offences. At any time, the person may apply to the court for release.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Serial analysis files

Article 230-12

In order to gather evidence and identify the perpetrators, by establishing links between individuals, events or offences, of crimes and misdemeanours of a serial nature, the national police and gendar…

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