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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-17-1-1

Any failure by the external valuation experts referred to in article L. 214-24-15 to comply with the laws, regulations and professional obligations applicable to them is subject to sanctions imposed b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Workshops and integration projects.

Article L5132-15-1-1

Workshops and integration projects can enter into open-ended contracts with people aged at least 57 who are experiencing particular social and professional difficulties, in accordance with procedures…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-12-1-1

Prescribers may make the dispensing of certain medicines conditional on the performance and results of medical tests, in particular biological or diagnostic tests, by means of a prescription known as…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 12: On-street vehicle parking charges

Article R2333-120-17-1

The Agence nationale de traitement informatisé des infractions governed by decree no. 2011-348 of 29 March 2011 is the authorising officer responsible for issuing the enforcement order provided for in…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.

Article L310-12-1

…onstitution and operation of the decision-making and governing bodies of the persons referred to in 1° to 3°, 5° and 9° to 11° of B of I of Article L. 612-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code comply w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book I: Public prosecutions and investigations

Article A36-11-1

…f audiovisual recordings of interrogations of persons under investigation made pursuant to Articles 116-1 and D. 32-2 and transmitted to the courts must comply with the standards and recommendations s…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Referral by the Cour de cassation of the priority question of constitutionality to the Conseil constitutionnel

Article 126-13

…ision taken by the chairman of the panel or his delegate pursuant to the first paragraph of article 126-11, as well as the date of the hearing.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IV: Special provisions for certain cross-border investigative measures.

Article 178-1

Where an investigative measure ordered abroad pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2020/1783 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2020 on cooperation between the courts of the Member St…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Referral by the Cour de cassation of the priority question of constitutionality to the Conseil constitutionnel

Article 126-10

…onality is raised on appeal, the separate pleading provided for in article 23-5 of Ordonnance n° 58-1067 of 7 November 1958 shall bear the words: "question prioritaire de constitutionnalité". The othe…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article 129-1

The parties can always ask the judge to record their conciliation.

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