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Showing 49314940 of 7437 articles for Art. TEPA Act 21 August 2007

French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Application of international conventions and European Union law

Article L614-25

…ction of Industrial Property, signed at Paris on 20 March 1883, and of the arrangements, additional acts and closing protocols which have modified or will modify the said Convention, in all cases wher…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: POLICE

Article L2215-9

…ment of rescue operations, under the responsibility of the municipal police pursuant to article L. 2212-2, is entrusted, in the event of an accident, disaster or catastrophe, for the road tunnels refe…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Renunciation of the succession.

Article 807

…by another heir or if the State has not already been sent into possession. Such acceptance is retroactive to the day on which the succession was opened, without, however, calling into question any ri…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1839

…e courts for an order, subject to a fine, to regularise the constitution. The Public Prosecutor may act for the same purpose.The same rules shall apply in the event of an amendment to the Articles of…

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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

…allel criminal proceedings conducted in several Member States against the same persons for the same acts, are likely to result in final judgments, the competent authorities of the Member States concer…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: The Eurojust Agency

Article 695-5-1

The Eurojust Agency, acting as a College, may address to the Public Prosecutor or the investigating judge a written and reasoned opinion on how to resolve a conflict of jurisdiction or on recurrent di…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Crimes and offences against the fundamental interests of the Nation

Article 701

…ustice. However, the Public Prosecutor shall have the authority to perform or cause to be performed acts required by the urgency and to request for this purpose the investigating judge at his seat. Th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions applicable to personal injury offences resulting from deliberate intoxication

Article 706-139-2

…122-1 of the Criminal Code in relation to an accused charged with murder, assassination, torture or acts of barbarism, violence or rape, the President asked the subsidiary question relating to the qua…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Disciplinary proceedings before the Enforcement Committee

Article R232-94

…nel appoints a rapporteur from among its members. The rapporteur draws up a report setting out the facts and the conditions under which the proceedings were conducted. The rapporteur may carry out any…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibition on proprietary trading

Article L420-2

…platforms it manages. Proprietary trading is a form of trading in which a person, the facilitator, acts as an intermediary between the buyer and the seller involved in the trade, so that there is no…

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