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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-2-6

…tal with deferred effect has been issued does not reside within the jurisdiction of the court that handed down the conviction, the public prosecutor may forward a copy of the warrant to the public pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-5-2

The provisions of

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-2-3

When the summonses provided for in 1°, 2°, 4° and 5° of article D. 48-2 have not been given to the convicted person at the end of the hearing or by the Sentence Enforcement Office, these summonses are…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-2-4

…she informs him or her of the prison in which he or she is to be incarcerated, as well as the date and times at which he or she is to report to that prison. After this information has been provided,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-2-7

…e a research note pursuant to 1° of article 230-19. When a deferred committal order has been issued and the sentence is enforceable or the order has been provisionally enforced, the public prosecutor…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-2-8

When a committal order with deferred effect has been issued, referral to the sentence enforcement judge by the sentenced person in accordance with article D. 49-11 of a request for semi-liberty, work…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article A38-5-2

…9 as amended relating to the decentralised departments of the Directorate-General of Public Finance and by derogation from Articles A. 38-3 to A. 38-5-1, the Ile-de-France and Paris Regional Directora…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conseil national d'orientation des conditions de travail (National Council for the Orientation of Working Conditions)

Article R4641-6

…e ouvrière (CGT-FO), one nominated by the Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens (CFTC) and one nominated by the Confédération française de l'encadrement-Confédération générale des cadres…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conseil national d'orientation des conditions de travail (National Council for the Orientation of Working Conditions)

Article R4641-5

…l national d'orientation des conditions de travail : 1° Participates in the preparation of national and international strategic guidelines relating to health and safety at work, the improvement of wor…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 706-1-2

The articles 706-80 to 706-87, 706-95 to 706-103 and 706-105 are applicable to the investigation, prosecution, trial and judgment of the offences provided for in the last paragraph of articles L. 241-…

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