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

Article 78-2-3

…where appropriate, by the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1°, 1° bis and 1° ter of article 21, may inspect vehicles travelling or stopped on the public highwa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of directors and shareholders of market undertakings

Article L421-7-2

…te adequate human and financial resources to the training of the persons referred to in Article L. 421-7.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Receipt of applications for recognition and monitoring of convictions and probation decisions

Article 764-18

…d any additional information that he considers useful. Where the certificate referred to in Article 764-6 is incomplete or manifestly does not correspond to the sentence or, where applicable, the prob…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Receipt of applications for recognition and monitoring of convictions and probation decisions

Article 764-19

The competent public prosecutor is the one in whose jurisdiction the convicted person's lawful habitual residence is located. Failing this, the public prosecutor at the Paris judicial court has jurisd…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article 706-25-4

When they concern one or more of the offences mentioned in articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Penal Code as well as the offences mentioned in articles L. 224-1 et L. 225-7 of the Internal Security Code, i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Coverage of apprenticeship contracts

Article D6332-78-2

Within a period of one month from the end of the period referred to in III of article D. 6332-78-1, a decree shall set:1° The level at which the apprenticeship contract provided for in article D. 6332…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXa: Directory of personal data collected in the context of legal proceedings

Article 706-56-2

…uations and examinations of the persons mentioned in the first paragraph that have been carried out:1° During the investigation;2° During the investigation;3° On the occasion of the judgment;4° During…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-15

…y of the decision and, after having drawn up and signed it, the certificate provided for in Article 728-12.He may make this transmission at the request of the competent authority of the executing Stat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-18

…inform the sentenced person of this in a language he or she understands. He shall also inform him : 1° That, if the sentence is enforced in the territory of that State, the enforcement of the sentence…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-17

…Office shall obtain the convicted person's consent where this is required pursuant to 3° of Article 728-11. If the convicted person is a minor or is the subject of a protection measure, the court shal…

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