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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VII: Exceptional provisions specific to the Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin départements.

Article R670-1

The forms of procedure applicable before the judicial courts of the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle in matters provided for by this code are determined by Article 31 of the law of 1 Jun…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Bookkeeping and deposit of funds.

Article R814-29

Administrators and mandataires judiciaires open, for each mandate received, within the framework of special accounts, an account that records all movements relating to that mandate as well as transact…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Safeguard measures

Article R4314-12

Where an economic operator has not implemented the corrective measures prescribed on the basis of Article R. 4314-11, the market surveillance authority may, on the basis of Article L. 4314-2, by order…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tests to verify knowledge

Article D4221-9

The jury is formed by drawing lots, in accordance with the procedures laid down by order of the ministers responsible for health and higher education. It is made up of : 1° Members chosen from the sec…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common section

Article A212-120

…hs before the date set for the defence. The document must be at least forty typewritten pages long (21 × 29.7 page format, recto only).B. - A modern foreign language test (coefficient 1) chosen from E…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases

Article D3821-12

Articles D. 3121-1 to D. 3121-14 are applicable to Wallis and Futuna.Articles D. 3121-21 to D. 3121-23-1 and D. 3121-24 to D. 3121-26, in the version resulting from Decree No. 2015-796 of 1st July 201…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Withdrawal of sentence reductions in the event of non-compliance with obligations

Article D147-43

…by article 712-6, including in the case of a person sentenced for acts committed before 14 December 2005 and for whom the first judicial supervision was ordered by the sentence enforcement court. In t…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Administrative penalties

Article L242-14-1

…ded for in Article L. 511-10 relating to a large-scale or EU-wide infringement, pursuant to Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2017 on…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-22-1

…he latter is liable to disciplinary sanctions taken under the conditions set out in articles L. 232-21-1 to L. 232-23-3-12.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Governance

Article L224-26

…ive schemes, a supervisory committee is set up in accordance with the provisions of articles L. 224-21 and L. 224-22. However, this supervisory committee is optional when the payments are allocated so…

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