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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Health policy.

Article L1411-6-2

All adults aged eighteen or over benefit from preventive health and social measures, including preventive appointments offered to insured persons at certain ages. These preventive appointments may inv…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Non-voting preference shares.

Article L228-35-6

Holders of non-voting preference shares are convened to a special meeting under conditions set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. Any shareholder holding non-voting preference shares may attend the spec…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-23-6

…position partially revokes the patent, it refers the proprietor back to the National Institute of Industrial Property to request that the patent be amended to comply with the decision. However, this r…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Counterfeiting litigation

Article L716-4-6

…ensation of the claimant or order the seizure or delivery into the hands of a third party of the products suspected of infringing the rights conferred by the title, in order to prevent their introduct…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of asset freezing orders issued by foreign authorities

Article 695-9-25

The Public Prosecutor shall inform the judicial authority of the issuing State of any appeal lodged and of the grounds raised, so that that authority may submit its observations, where appropriate by…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 30 November 2009

Article 695-9-56

Information requested by the requesting authority of such a nature as to prejudice the fundamental national security interests of the State or to compromise the security of a person shall not be commu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 30 November 2009

Article 695-9-54

…nflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings, where parallel criminal proceedings conducted in several Member States against the same persons for the same acts, are likely to result in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of asset freezing orders issued by foreign authorities

Article 695-9-27

Where the request has been made with a view to the subsequent confiscation of the property, it shall be retained on French territory in accordance with the rules of this Code.If the investigating judg…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of asset freezing orders issued by foreign authorities

Article 695-9-30

Release of all or part of the freezing order may be requested by any interested person.When the investigating judge considers, of his own motion or at the request of any interested person, releasing t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to asset freezing orders issued by the French judicial authorities

Article 695-9-7

The public prosecutor, the investigating courts, the liberty and custody judge and the trial courts, which are competent under the provisions of this code to order the seizure of property, are compete…

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