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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R212-7-20

…212-7-18 or the date on which the authorisation is deemed to have been granted by virtue of article L. 212-10-1 . When completion of an authorised project is subject to obtaining planning permission,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-4

…entioned in articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Penal Code as well as the offences mentioned in articles L. 224-1 et L. 225-7 of the Internal Security Code, information relating to the identity as well as…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-8

Any person whose identity is recorded in the file is informed of this by the judicial authority either by personal notification, or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt sent to the las…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 775-1 A

A legal entity's bulletin no. 2 is the record of the records applicable to it, excluding those concerning the following decisions: 1° Convictions that have been expressly excluded from being mentioned…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-5

The competent public prosecutor shall immediately record the information to be included in the file by means of a secure electronic communication system. However, in the event of the file being consul…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Recruitment.

Article R6152-7-2

I. - When, as a result of the new distribution of posts mentioned in 4° of II of article L. 6132-2 resulting from the initial shared medical project or its update, one or more hospital practitioner po…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Agreement

Article R5132-10-7

…sting integration offer; f) The way in which the condition of exclusive activity defined in article L. 5132-6 is met, in particular the completeness of the human and material resources; g) Where appli…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Remote access to correspondence stored by means of electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier

Article 706-95-3

The operations mentioned in articles 706-95-1 and 706-95-2 are carried out under the authority and control of the magistrate who authorised them and may not, on pain of nullity, have any purpose other…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2-2

…n of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery mentioned in 1° and 2° of I of Article L. 1333-9, à l'article L. 1333-11, in II of articles L. 1333-13-3 and L. 1333-13-4 and in articles L…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Collection of technical connection data and interception of correspondence transmitted by electronic communications

Article 706-95-20

I.-It may be resorted to the installation and use of an apparatus or technical device mentioned in 1° of Article 226-3 of the Penal Code in order to collect technical connection data enabling the iden…

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