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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 205

…r may at any time request the communication of the proceedings, on condition that the exhibits are returned within twenty-four hours.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 201

…one of the parties or even of its own motion, order any additional information that it deems useful. It may also, in all cases, after hearing the public prosecutor, order of its own motion the relea…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 202

It may, of its own motion or at the request of the Public Prosecutor, order that he or she be informed in respect of the persons under investigation or defendants referred to it on all the counts of c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 203

Offences are related either when they have been committed at the same time by several persons together, or when they have been committed by different persons, even at different times and in different…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 200

…utor, the parties, their lawyers and the court clerk being able to be present under any circumstances.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 206

…ares the act in question null and void and, if appropriate, all or part of the subsequent proceedings. After annulment, it may either evoke and proceed under the conditions provided for in articles 20…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 4: Special measures.

Article 20

…ed, in accordance with the terms and conditions of application laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat: a) A financial levy on ships used by or on behalf of companies that are nationals of the forei…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 4: Open livestock account.

Article 209

…preceding article where the formality of an open account will not be required ; b) extend to 5 kilometres the distance of 2 kilometres provided for in paragraph 1 of the preceding article in order to…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 4: Open livestock account.

Article 208

1. In the area between the land border of the customs territory and a line situated two kilometres inside the line of the customs offices and brigades closest to the foreign country, animals in the ca…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VI: Special provisions applicable in the event of transfer, termination or death

Article 203

Taxes assessed in the event of transfer, cessation or death, by application of articles 201 and 202, are deducted, where applicable, from the amount of income tax subsequently calculated in accordance…

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