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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to protected adults

Article 419

…ance of the assets managed or the difficulty of exercising the measure, the payment of an indemnity to the person responsible for protection. It sets the amount. This indemnity is payable by the prote…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to judicial measures

Article 430

The application to open the measure may be made to the judge by the person who needs to be protected or, as the case may be, by his or her spouse, the partner with whom he or she has entered into a ci…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to protected adults

Article 420

With the exception of aid or subsidies granted by public authorities to legal entities for their general operation, legal representatives for the protection of adults may not, in any capacity or in an…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to judicial measures

Article 428

…uded by the person concerned, by applying the rules of common law on representation, those relating to the respective rights and duties of spouses and the rules of matrimonial property regimes, in par…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to protected adults

Article 415

…Its purpose shall be the interests of the protected person. It promotes, as far as possible, the autonomy of the latter. It is a duty of the families and of the public community.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to protected adults

Article 423

Liability actions are time-barred after five years from the end of the protective measure even if the management would have continued beyond that date. However, where guardianship has ceased by the op…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Declarations

Article 407

The harvest, production and stock declarations provided for in the European regulations adopted for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VI: Piquettes and sugar wines

Article 428

1° (Repealed) 2° The product of the fermentation of fresh grape marc with water and sugar is considered to be sugar wine.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Occupational health medical file

Article R4624-45-4

The occupational health medical file includes the following elements: 1° Identity data, including the national health identifier referred to in Article L. 1111-8-1 of the Public Health Code, the medic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Taking of evidence

Article 431

…ted with certain functions of the judicial police have been empowered by a special provision of law to establish offences by minutes or reports, evidence to the contrary may only be adduced in writing…

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