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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Recovery.

Article 347

Within two months of receiving the response from the Regional Director of Customs or, in the absence of a response, on expiry of the six-month period provided for in the previous article, the taxpayer…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 386

If the effects and papers of accountants are sealed, the revenue and other registers for the current year must not be sealed. The said registers are simply stopped and initialled by the judge, who han…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 384

When the release of objects seized for infringement of laws the enforcement of which is entrusted to the customs administration is granted by judgments against which an appeal is lodged, they shall on…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 383

The administration is authorised not to make any payment by virtue of judgments contested by opposition, appeal or cassation, unless those in whose favour the said judgments have been rendered have fi…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 385

All seizures of the proceeds of duties, made in the hands of the tax collectors or in those of the parties liable to pay the administration, are null and void; notwithstanding the said seizures, the p…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Recovery.

Article 349

Any challenge to the decisions of the accounting officer of customs relating to the guarantees required of the person liable for payment may be brought, within fifteen days of notification of the repl…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 4: Appeals in cassation.

Article 366

The rules in force in the territory concerning cassation proceedings in civil and criminal matters are applicable to customs cases.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1b: Protection of the identity of certain officials involved in criminal proceedings

Article D8-3

The line managers likely to issue the authorisations mentioned in I of article 15-4 are: 1° For the national police, the directors of the territorial services of the national police, the directors of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Radon management in establishments open to the public

Article R1333-33

I.-The owner or, if an agreement so provides, the operator of establishments open to the public belonging to one of the categories mentioned in article D. 1333-32 has the radon activity measured:1° In…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
7: Rehabilitation lease

Article 33 quinquies

Rents and services of any kind that constitute the price of a rehabilitation lease concluded under the conditions provided for by articles

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