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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-37

The services and units referred to in Article 695-9-31 shall, at their request, forward to the competent services of the Member States the information, referred to in the same Article, that is useful…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to requests for information by the French services

Article 695-9-33

…ce or for investigations to establish proof thereof or to track down the perpetrators, the services and units referred to in the same Article may request that it be passed on to the competent services…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-38

…State either in preventing an offence falling within one of the categories listed in Article 694-32 and punishable in France by a custodial sentence of at least three years' imprisonment, or in order…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-47

An order of the Minister for Justice, the Minister for the Interior and the Minister for the Budget shall designate the contact points to which requests for the transmission of information may be addr…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Advertising

Article L312-6

…tising, regardless of the medium, relating to one of the transactions mentioned in article L. 312-1 and indicates an interest rate or figures relating to the cost of credit clearly, precisely and visi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Rules of conduct

Article L521-6

…information provided by the distributor to the subscriber pursuant to Articles L. 521-2 to L. 521-4 and L. 522-1 to L. 522-6 shall be provided on paper. This information may also be provided on a dura…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Economic concentration.

Article L430-6

…ction by the Competition Authority is that provided for in the second paragraph of 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…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Issue.

Article R5132-6

Pharmacists dispense medicines covered by lists I and II and medicines classified as narcotics on prescription or on order for professional use: 1° From a doctor ; 2° a dental surgeon, for dental purp…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Registration of homeopathic medicines.

Article R5141-64

…homeopathic stock or stocks, mentioning the various routes of administration, pharmaceutical forms and degrees of dilution to be registered; 2° A document describing how the stock or stocks were obta…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 2: Obligations.

Article L228-65

…eliberate on all measures intended to ensure the defence of the common interests of the bondholders and on any proposal to amend the contract and in particular:1° On any proposal relating to the amend…

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