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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Commissions responsible for applications for authorisation to practise by doctors with hospital and university qualifications

Article D4111-13-8

If the ministerial authority does not respond to an application submitted under articles L. 4131-4 and L. 4131-4-1 within four months of receipt of a complete application, this will be deemed to const…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Customs detention

Article L716-8-3

During the withholding period referred to in Article L. 716-8 and in the second paragraph of I of Article L. 716-8-2, the owner of the registered trademark or the beneficiary of the exclusive exploita…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article D214-80-9

Any breach of the provisions of articles D. 214-80 to D. 214-80-8 is subject to the penalties provided for in the sixth paragraph of article 1763 C of the General Tax Code.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Customs detention

Article L716-8-4

I.-When the detention of goods suspected of infringing a registered trademark is implemented after a request referred to in Article L. 716-8 has been accepted, the goods suspected of infringing the re…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Agreement between professional organisations

Article L132-17-8

I.-Where the professional organisations representing authors and publishers in the book sector conclude an agreement covering all the provisions mentioned in II, this agreement may be made binding on…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: General provisions

Article L613-50-8

The collège de résolution and the fonds de garantie des dépôts et de résolution may recover sums corresponding to the amount of any justified expenses incurred in implementing one or more resolution m…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Surveillance

Article 706-80-2

As part of an operation to monitor the routing or transport of objects, goods or proceeds derived from the commission of one of the offences falling within the scope of Articles 706-73,706-73-1or 706-…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Surveillance

Article 706-80-1

Where there are one or more plausible grounds for suspecting persons of having committed one of the offences falling within the scope of Articles 706-73,706-73-1 or 706-74, in the context of a surveil…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Police custody

Article 706-88-1

If it emerges from the initial elements of the investigation or from police custody itself that there is a serious risk of imminent terrorist action in France or abroad, or that the requirements of in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Sub-title II: Courts with jurisdiction to prosecute, investigate and try crimes against humanity and war crimes and offences

Article 628-8-1

By way of derogation from Article 11, for investigation or prosecution proceedings initiated on the basis of one or more offences falling within the scope of the article 628, the counter-terrorism pub…

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