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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Insolvency proceedings concerning members of a group of companies established in several Member States

Article R694-3

The court shall hear applications made pursuant to Article L. 694-3. It rules in chambers after hearing or duly summoning the coordinator and the insolvency practitioners appointed in the proceedings…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R2221-3

The régie with sole financial autonomy is administered, under the authority of the mayor and the municipal council, by an operating board and its chairman as well as a director. The same operating boa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Overall operating grant

Article R2334-3

The amount of the reduction or increase mentioned in the first paragraph of III of article L. 2334-7 is equal for each commune to the product of the difference between its population recorded in respe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-32

When it issues a prohibition pursuant to the provisions of Article 706-136, the investigating chamber or the trial court may order, either in its decision or in a subsequent decision, that the declara…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-30

Where the person in respect of whom one or more of the measures provided for in Article 706-136 is involuntarily hospitalised, either pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 3213-1 of the Public Heal…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-31

The public prosecutor or the public prosecutor shall notify the automated national criminal records department of judgments and rulings declaring that a person is not criminally responsible on account…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Establishment and composition

Article D49-3

…the sentence enforcement court shall be that of the judicial court of the seat of the court of appeal.COURS D'APPELJUDICIAL COURTS seats of the sentence enforcement courts of these courtsBordeauxBerg…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Finance companies carrying out a permanent mission in the public interest.

Article R515-3

French joint stock companies, known as sociétés de développement régional, contribute to the financing of companies located in France in the form of equity holdings. These companies are authorised to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: The national financial intelligence unit

Article R561-36

I. - For the purposes of Article L. 561-24, the TRACFIN department shall notify the person designated under I of Article R. 561-23 in writing, directly and by any means, of its opposition to the execu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking services providers

Article R773-3

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table:Applicable art…

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