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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 732

The conditional release decision lays down the terms and conditions under which freedom is granted and maintained, as well as the nature and duration of the assistance and supervision measures. If it…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 729-2

When a foreign national sentenced to a custodial sentence is subject to a French ban, an administrative ban on French territory, an obligation to leave French territory, a ban on returning to French t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Relations with the statutory auditors

Article D612-55

…is sent to the statutory auditor concerned and to the person subject to supervision by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution by letter sent in the manner provided for in Article R. 612-…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article R4621-1

…hments, whose occupational health and prevention services are governed by Book VII of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: CCI France.

Article R711-63

I.-Voting rights at the General Meeting are defined as follows: 1° The total voting rights of the chairmen of the territorial, local and departmental chambers of commerce and industry of Ile-de-France…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Common provisions

Article R732-5

I. - Subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the ri…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Currency

Article R733-5

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

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 730-2-1

When the person has been sentenced to a custodial sentence for one or more offences mentioned in articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Criminal Code, excluding those defined in articles 421-2-5 to 421-2-5-2…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Provisions relating to sports betting bans

Article R131-44

…s has breached the prohibition on betting set out in c of Article L. 131-16, the Autorité nationale des jeux or La Française des jeux will forward the results of these reconciliations to the agents me…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Patentable inventions

Article L611-12

If a first filing has been made in a State which is not a member of the Paris Union or the World Trade Organization, a right of priority attached to that filing having effects equivalent to those prov…

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