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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-20

Where it has not been taken in the course of the investigation, enquiry or trial proceedings, the sample shall be taken, on the instructions of the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor and in ac…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Article L335-7-2

To impose the suspension provided for in articles L. 335-7 and L. 335-7-1 and determine the length of the sentence, the court shall take into account the circumstances and seriousness of the offence,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personal data protection committees and competent authority

Article L1123-7-2

…for the Protection of Individuals for an opinion, it shall give the opinion referred to in Article L. 1123-7 solely with regard to the requirements mentioned in the third paragraph of Article L. 1124…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Multiannual agreements on objectives and resources

Article L6114-1-2

When the health care establishment has a long-term care authorisation mentioned inarticle L. 174-5 of the Social Security Code, the contract provided for in article L. 6114-1 of this Code includes an…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Health record and compulsory examinations.

Article L2132-2-1

…al surgeon or a doctor qualified in stomatology certifies on the health record mentioned in article L. 2132-1 that the examinations have been carried out. In the year following their eighteenth, twent…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Provisions adapting Book I.

Article L931-1-2

For its application in New Caledonia, article L. 123-11-6 is worded as follows: Art. L. 123-11-6 -Customs officers are qualified to investigate and establish breaches of the provisions of this sub-sec…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 6: Information to be provided to the public

Article L385-7-2

Article L. 533-22-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code applies to supplementary occupational pension funds.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Inspections and investigations

Article L621-10-2

…telecommunications operators, under the conditions and subject to the limits provided for inArticle L. 34-1 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code, and by the service providers mentione…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial organisation

Article R114-29

…fficer and given to the accounting officer, who takes charge of them and notifies them to the debtors. All rights acquired during the course of a financial year must be the subject of a revenue order…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article R612-22

Proof of the exhibitor's right, defined in Article L. 611-13, first paragraph, second indent b, shall be provided within four months of the filing date of the patent application in the form of a certi…

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