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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXXI: Conservatory measures

Article 706-166

…one of the offences, punishable by three years' imprisonment or more, listed in the tittre Ier du livre III du code pénal, le juge des libertés et de la détention, sur requête du procureur de la Répu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIX: Special seizures

Article 706-141

This Title shall apply, in order to ensure the enforcement of the additional penalty of confiscation under the conditions defined in article 131-21 du code pénal, to seizures carried out in applicatio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L420-5

…ed in local production and processing, on the other, may be made compulsory by the State representative in the territory. This takes into account the volumes of products concerned, the economic situat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L420-6

It shall be punishable by four years' imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros for any natural person to fraudulently take a personal and determining part in the design, organisation or implementation…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L420-2-2

…of which is to prohibit or substantially limit the possibility for an undertaking which provides private public passenger transport services or occasional collective passenger transport services carr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L420-2

Under the conditions set out in Article L. 420-1, the abuse by an undertaking or group of undertakings of a dominant position within the internal market or a substantial part thereof is prohibited. Th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L420-1

Concerted actions, agreements, express or tacit understandings or coalitions are prohibited, even through the direct or indirect intermediary of a group company established outside France, when their…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L420-2-1

…e prohibited in communities falling under Article 73 of the Constitution and in the overseas collectivities of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and Wallis-et-Futuna, agreements…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L420-3

Any undertaking, agreement or contractual clause relating to a practice prohibited by articles L. 420-1, L. 420-2, L. 420-2-1 and L. 420-2-2.

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L420-4

…ions of Articles L. 420-1 and L. 420-2 practices: 1° Which result from the application of a legislative text or a regulatory text adopted for its application; 2° Whose authors can justify that they ha…

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