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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Transparency, restrictive competition practices and other prohibited practices.

Article D440-10

The Commercial Practices Review Board may only validly deliberate in the presence of half of its members plus one.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Territorial, local and departmental chambers of commerce and industry in the Ile-de-France region

Article D711-10

…provide companies with all the information and advice they need to help them develop.They may also set up and directly provide other advisory and assistance services to companies, in compliance with c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: ACCOUNTING

Article D2343-10

…re the use of the following documents: 1° Divisional journals on which transactions are entered in detail in chronological order, as and when they are recorded; 2° A journal and a general ledger or a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: COMMUNE SECTION

Article D2411-10

The head office of the union commission is set at the town hall of the chief town of the commune to which the section belongs.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIX: Procedure applicable to sexual offences and the protection of minors who are victims

Article D47-10

…ssistance proceedings, throughout the criminal proceedings, of decisions that may affect relations between the parents and their children. The investigating judge may seek the opinion of the juvenile…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Establishment and composition

Article D49-10

…of the second paragraph of article 712-13 Bourges Resorts of the Bourges and Orléans Courts of Appeal. Dijon Dijon and Besançon Courts of Appeal Nancy Courts of Appeal of Nancy and Metz Versailles Cou…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Issuing and enforcing financial penalties pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 24 February 2005

Article D48-10

The certificate must be translated into the official language or one of the official languages of the executing State or into one of the official languages of the institutions of the European Communit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: General conditions of detention

Article D147-10

…lic prosecutor at that court shall directly send a copy of the decision(s) to the territorially competent sentence enforcement judge. The latter will then issue the summons or summonses provided for b…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article A36-10

Candidates who have failed four sessions may no longer be authorised to sit for the technical examination in aptitude for the performance of certain judicial police duties.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions applicable to offences leading to the loss of driving licence points

Article A37-10

…in colour and its characteristics are as follows: I.-On the front, on the left-hand side, are the details provided for in I of

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