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

Article 706-25-8

…with the prior authorisation of the public prosecutor. The person is then informed of the measures and obligations to which he or she is subject pursuant to article 706-25-7 and of the penalties incu…

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

Article 706-25-5

…ter of Foreign Affairs or the managing service, according to the hypotheses provided for in Article 706-25-7, record this information in the file without delay via a secure electronic communications m…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1a: Freedom to provide services by industrial property agents established on the territory of a Member State of the European Community or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R422-7-2

The professionals mentioned in Article R. 422-7-1 are required, when carrying out their activity in France, to comply with the rules set out in the articles L. 422-8 and R. 422-52 to R. 422-54. In the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Regional development plan

Article L4433-7-2

The regional development plan sets out the fundamental guidelines for the development, protection and enhancement of the coastline. It takes the place, for the sectors that it determines, of a scheme…

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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 Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 77-1-2

…e officer or agent may carry out the requisitions provided for in the first paragraph of Article 60-2 subject to Article 60-1-2. With the authorisation of the juge des libertés et de la détention (lib…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 730-2-1

…e person has been sentenced to a custodial sentence for one or more offences mentioned in articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Criminal Code, excluding those defined in articles 421-2-5 to 421-2-5-2 of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Judgment

Article D45-2-7

…of provisional execution, to exercise the remedies, to comply with the obligations laid down in 1° and 2° of Article D. 45-2-3, the prison sentence may be enforced at any time by the police. This inf…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article R442-7-2

Applications for guarantees are sent to the body referred to in article L. 432-2 , which examines them and submits them to the Commission des garanties et du crédit au commerce extérieur (Guarantees a…

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

Article 728-22-1

…y of another European Union Member State for enforcement pursuant to the third paragraph of Article 728-15 ;

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