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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: The Eurojust Agency

Article 695-5-1

The Eurojust Agency, acting as a College, may address to the Public Prosecutor or the investigating judge a written and reasoned opinion on how to resolve a conflict of jurisdiction or on recurrent di…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-6

…d of this by the judicial authority, either by notification in person, or by registered letter sent to the last declared address, or, failing this, by the use of force publique by the judicial police…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Rights and guarantees for disabled workers.

Article L5213-6-1

In any company employing at least two hundred and fifty employees, a referent is appointed to guide, inform and support people with disabilities. For the purposes of this article, the number of employ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Local investment funds.

Article R214-66-1

A local investment fund may borrow up to 10% of its assets.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Innovation mutual funds.

Article D214-64-1

The Autorité des marchés financiers shall refuse to approve the creation of a fonds commun de placement dans l'innovation if, over a period of three years, each of the fonds communs de placement dans…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transparency

Article R3512-1-6

I. - The authority responsible for the public website shall take the necessary technical measures to ensure the integrity of the site on which it makes public the reports referred to in article L. 351…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Deliberative body of public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax system

Article L5211-6-2

…of such an establishment by the integration of one or more communes or the modification of the territorial boundaries of a member commune, or the annulment by the administrative court of the distribut…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Guardianship arrangements.

Article R712-6-1

Collective agreements and conventions subject to approval in accordance with the first paragraph of 6° of Article L. 711-16 are transmitted to the supervisory minister of the chambers of commerce and…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-69-1

…y board members of each sex may not be less than 40%, at the end of the next general meeting called to vote on appointments, in companies which, for the third consecutive financial year, employ an ave…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Contracts concluded at trade fairs and exhibitions

Article L224-62-1

…event covered by Chapter II of Title VI of Book VII of the Commercial Code takes place on the territory of a European grouping of territorial cooperation, the representative of the State in the dépar…

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