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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Liens and mortgages, subrogation.

Article 379

1. For the recovery of taxes of all kinds and assimilated taxes, confiscations, fines and restitutions provided for in this code, public accountants benefit from the Treasury's lien provided for in ar…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-24

…fessional practice standard relating to the intervention of an expert, approved by the Minister of Justice, is shown below: NEP-620. NEP-620 Intervention by an expert Introduction 01. Pursuant to the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Overall effective rate.

Article R313-1

…tions and within the periods specified in the credit agreement. For credit agreements containing clauses allowing for adjustments to the interest rate and, where applicable, to the charges included in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Payment terms

Article L441-11

I.-The professionals in a sector, customers and suppliers, may jointly decide to reduce the maximum payment period set in the second, third and fourth paragraphs of I of Article L. 441-10. They may al…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Effects of winding-up proceedings of companies whose registered office is located within the territory of a Member State of the European Union other than France.

Article L326-26

…up proceedings on the rights and obligations of participants in a regulated market are governed exclusively by the law applicable to that market.This provision shall not prevent the exercise of action…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 6: Access to the cinema

Article L212-31

…ion contract provided for by articles L. 212-29 and L. 212-30. This contract may not contain any clause relating to the programming of the associated exhibitors' cinemas, nor any clause relating to ex…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Draws of lots.

Article R150-6

…ethod, the explanation of which is given on the title, and which can therefore be considered as exclusively designated by the drawing of these first numbers. Each tariff must be listed separately.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions applicable before the investigating, trial, sentence enforcement and secure detention courts

Article R*49-27

Refusal to refer the question relieves the court of jurisdiction of the plea in law based on the priority question of constitutionality. However, where this refusal was based exclusively on the findin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Provisions applicable to persons convicted of acts of terrorism

Article D49-75

The arrangements for applying the provisions of Article 706-22-1 giving concurrent or exclusive jurisdiction to the Sentence Enforcement Judge of the Paris Judicial Court, the Paris Sentence Enforceme…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Annex I

Article Rubrique 0

…0-Common parts 01. Quality of the authorising officer (1) (2) (1) As part of the control of the status of the authorising officer that accounting officers are required to carry out in respect of payme…

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