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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 869

For the application of Article 719 in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, French Polynesia and New Caledonia, journalists are either holders of the professional identity card defined by the Labour Code, or…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Provisional enforcement.

Article 514

Decisions at first instance are provisionally enforceable by operation of law unless the law or the decision rendered provides otherwise.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Book VII: ENFORCEMENT OF REMOVAL DECISIONS

Article L710-1

In accordance with article L. 264-1, the provisions of article L. 711-1 and the third paragraph of article L. 711-2 are applicable to foreign nationals whose situation is governed by Book II.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Enforcement procedure

Article 695-28

Following notification of the European arrest warrant, if he decides not to release the wanted person, the public prosecutor shall present him to the first president of the court of appeal or the judg…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Enforcement procedure

Article 695-27

Any person apprehended in execution of a European arrest warrant must be brought before the territorially competent public prosecutor within forty-eight hours. During this period, the provisions of Ar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Enforcement procedure

Article 695-28-1

For the examination of requests for the execution of a European arrest warrant concerning the perpetrators of acts of terrorism, the Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal, the First President…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Enforcement procedure

Article 695-26

…ested person is in a known place on national territory, the arrest warrant issued by a Member State of the European Union or a State linked to the European Union by an agreement mentioned in section 5…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Book VII: ENFORCEMENT OF REMOVAL DECISIONS

Article R710-1

In accordance with article R. 264-1, the provisions of articles R. 711-3 to R. 711-5 are applicable to foreign nationals whose situation is governed by Book II.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates

Article L633-12

…trôle prudentiel et de résolution, when appointed as coordinator, finds that the regulated entities of a financial conglomerate comply with the requirements referred to in Article L. 517-8 but that th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates

Article L633-13

Where a regulated entity uses its membership of a financial conglomerate to evade, in whole or in part, the application of the sectoral rules to which it is subject, the Autorité de contrôle prudentie…

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