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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article 706-6

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

Article 706-25-12

…secutor to rectify or order the deletion of information concerning him or her if the information is not accurate or if its retention no longer appears necessary given the purpose of the file, with reg…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article R311-8

I.-When the resolution board finds that the conditions mentioned in 1° to 4° of III of Article L. 311-18 have been met for a person mentioned in Article L. 311-1, it shall inform that person without d…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable by court order

Article L237-25

…f office of the auditors, statutory auditors or members of the supervisory board. If the meeting is not convened, the report provided for in the first paragraph above is filed with the clerk of the co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Economic concentration.

Article L430-6

…Article L. 463-2 and to articles L. 463-4, L. 463-6 and L. 463-7. However, the parties who made the notification and the Government Commissioner must produce their observations in response to the comm…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: The company during the observation period.

Article L622-14

…nder the following conditions: 1° On the day the lessor is informed of the administrator's decision not to continue the lease. In this case, non-performance may give rise to damages to the co-contract…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-15

I.-At the latest at the end of a period of two months from the opening judgment, the court shall order the observation period to continue if it appears to it that the debtor has sufficient financing c…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Other offences.

Article L654-12

…it sums received in the performance of his duties, or by being granted advantages that he knew were not due; 2° Making, in his own interest, of the powers at his disposal, a use that he knew to be con…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Procedure applicable to the interoperability of technological measures

Article R331-38

In the event of failure to comply with the commitments accepted by the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article R. 33…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Communication of the appeal and pleadings

Article R532-17

…yers are made by ordinary letter, with the exception of the order closing the investigation and the notice of hearing, which are served by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.As an excep…

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