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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: National guarantee fund for agricultural disasters.

Article R431-38

For the application of 1° of article 13 of law no. 64-706 of 10 July 1964, the Caisse Centrale de Réassurance is responsible for compiling the statistics required to carry out the information and prev…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Simplified procedure

Article R48

The accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finance shall proceed with the recovery of the criminal order upon expiry of the period of thirty days from the date of dispatch of the regi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VII: Legal costs

Article R334

The first paragraph of Article R. 165 shall read as follows: "In criminal matters, the issue, when authorised, of reproductions of procedural documents other than decisions is remunerated at the rate…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R775-1

I. - Are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Preliminary provisions

Article R91

Court costs are the procedural expenses, to be borne definitively or provisionally by the State, which result from a decision by the judicial authority or by a person acting under its direction or con…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Trial courts

Article R277

For the application of article R. 49-8-1 in New Caledonia, the reference to article "529-3" is replaced by the reference to article "850-1" and the reference to "II of article 529-4" is replaced by th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Funds open to non-professional investors

Article R743-10

I. - Subject to the adaptations provided for in II and III, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicate…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Funds open to non-professional investors

Article R744-10

I. - Are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in II and III, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions specific to patient care provided in another Member State of the European Union

Article R1111-60

The data subjects of the processing shall receive the information provided for in Article 13(3) of Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: National fund for the development of water supplies.

Article R2335-11

Consumption of water distributed by connections with a diameter greater than forty millimetres is subject to an annual flat-rate assessment by the distributor, verified by the technical service respon…

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