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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXXIII: Procedure applicable in the event of a collective accident

Article 706-179

…the competent investigating court pursuant to the said Article. The parties are notified in advance and invited to make their observations by the investigating judge. The order is made eight days at t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXXIII: Procedure applicable in the event of a collective accident

Article 706-176

…ded to the jurisdiction of one or more courts of appeal for the investigation, prosecution, hearing and judgment of the offences provided for in articles 221-6,221-6-1,222-19,222-19-1,222-20 and 222-2…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXXIII: Procedure applicable in the event of a collective accident

Article 706-177

…jurisdiction is extended to the jurisdiction of one or more courts of appeal, the public prosecutor and the first president, after consulting the public prosecutor and the president of the judicial co…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions applicable to released prisoners

Article 723-17

…rovided for in the first paragraph of Article 712-6, even if he or she has previously been refused, and this referral suspends the possibility for the public prosecutor to enforce the sentence subject…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Disciplinary procedure

Article R241-17

…by one or more persons of his choice. If the person concerned does not sufficiently speak or understand the French language, he may, at his request, be assisted by an interpreter at the expense of the…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions common to all sporting events

Article R331-17

The Minister for the Interior and the Minister for Transport jointly draw up the list of roads that are permanently, periodically or temporarily banned for all sporting events or for certain categorie…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Temporary installations

Article R312-17

…ordance with the conditions laid down in Chapter V of Title II of Book I of the French Construction and Housing Code.The technical inspection covers the solidity of the elements making up the installa…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions relating to the implementation by organisers of profit-making sporting events of automated processing of personal data for the purposes of Article L. 332-1

Article R332-17

I.- Employees individually designated by the data controller and belonging to the departments responsible for security, ticketing, legal affairs and the organisation of sporting events shall have acce…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R321-17

All documents accompanying applications for approval must be written in or translated into French.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-17

In order to calculate the group solvency of an undertaking mentioned in the first paragraph of Article R. 356-8 which is a participating undertaking in a credit institution, investment firm or financi…

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