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Showing 801810 of 66032 articles for Art. al. 2 · Cass. com. 26 November 2003 · Cass. 3e civ. 7 January 2009 · Cass. com. 1 March 2011

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-29-7-1

…or operating in a Member State of the European Union shall send to the intermediaries mentioned in 1° to 4° of I of Article L. 228-2 the information necessary to enable shareholders or their proxies…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-20

…Article 694-4, enforcement of a confiscation order shall be refused in any of the following cases: 1° If the certificate is not produced, if it is drawn up incompletely or if it manifestly does not c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Reduction of sentences

Article 721-2

…a measure of release on parole or conditional release under the conditions provided for in Articles 720 and 730-3, the sentence enforcement judge may, for the sole purpose of promoting the integration…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2-2

…their responsibility, the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1°, 1° bis and 1° ter of Article 21 of this Code, may carry out the identity checks provided for in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 74-2

…n the instructions of the public prosecutor, carry out the acts provided for in the Articles 56 to 62 for the purpose of searching for and discovering a person who is absconding in the following cases…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-23

…hapter. This decree specifies the conditions under which the expert opinion provided for by article 712-21 may not be ordered, with the agreement of the public prosecutor, either because of the existe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-22

Enforcement of a confiscation order may be refused in any of the following cases: 1° If the confiscation order is based on criminal proceedings relating to offences committed in whole or in part withi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 713-2

…cate drawn up by the competent authority of the issuing State comprising the following particulars: 1° The identification of the issuing State; 2° The identification of the court in the issuing State…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Trade union rights.

Article D6152-73-2

Within the limits of the appropriations allocated for this purpose in the budget of the Minister responsible for health, an operating subsidy for IT and telephony resources is allocated for each seat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 706-25-2

By way of derogation from Article 11, the Anti-Terrorist Public Prosecutor, for investigation or prosecution proceedings initiated on the basis of one or more offences falling within the scope of Arti…

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