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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 60-3

…ned in Chapter II of Title VIII and in 6° of Article 427 as well as those dispatched under a suspensive procedure. They may carry out the same visits to investigate the offences provided for in articl…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 60-9

Customs officers may only take statements with a view to recognising objects discovered during the visit. Where a person concerned by the visit and suspected of having committed a customs offence is t…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 61

1. All drivers of means of transport must comply with the orders of customs officers. 2. The latter may use appropriate equipment that complies with the technical standards defined by order of the Min…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 60-4

…thorised or when production, manufacturing, packaging, transport, handling, storage or marketing activities are in progress. This access does not apply to the part of the premises used for private or…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 60 bis

Where there are serious indications that a person is carrying narcotics concealed in his or her body, customs officers may subject the person to medical screening tests after first obtaining the perso…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 60-5

…plemented in the same place for a period not exceeding, for all operations together, twelve consecutive hours and they may not consist of a systematic check of persons present or circulating in the pl…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 62

…t must be carried out on board, customs officers acting as sea captains may order the vessel to be diverted to a suitable position or port.III - Each inspection takes place in the presence of the ship…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 61 bis

…cers shall immobilise, under conditions laid down by decree in the Council of State, non-Community civilian and military dual-use items bound for a country that is not a member of the European Union,…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Liens and mortgages, subrogation.

Article 379 bis

1. Amounts still owed as preferential claims by merchants and legal entities governed by private law, even if they are not merchants, in respect of the claims listed in 1 of article 379, shall be disc…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Liens and mortgages, subrogation.

Article 380

Producers, importers, refiners, distributors, wholesalers of mineral oils, derivatives and residues, as well as garage distributors and fuel retailers benefit, for the recovery of the part of their cl…

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