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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article D621-29-1

…es is traded is determined on the basis of an annual average of the number of securities traded on 31 December of the previous year. The amount of the contribution referred to in IIa of Article L. 621…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions specific to contracts concluded by electronic means

Article 1127-2

…y concluded if the recipient of the offer has had the opportunity to check the details of his order and its total price and to correct any errors before confirming it to express his final acceptance.T…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Reintegration into French nationality

Article 24-1

Reinstatement by decree may be obtained at any age and without a qualifying period. It is subject, for the rest, to the conditions and rules for naturalisation.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Formation of the jury

Article 264-1

Notwithstanding the last paragraph of Article 260, the first two paragraphs of Article 261-1 and the first paragraph of Article 263, the timetable for the operations required to draw up the annual lis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Optional or exceptional acts

Article 286-1

When, as a result of a severance of proceedings, an appeal or any other cause, the assize court is seised only of the referral to it of one or more defendants, solely for an offence connected with a c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Formation of the jury

Article 261-1

The preparatory list must be drawn up in two originals, one of which is deposited at the town hall, and for Paris at the annexed town hall, and the other sent before 15 July to the secretariat-registr…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 2: Proceedings before the guardianship judge

Article 1221-2

On being informed that educational assistance proceedings have been opened in respect of the minor, the guardianship judge shall, at the request of the children's judge, transmit a copy of any documen…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Prevention

Article L232-2-1

…ch it is notified. However, an authorisation may take effect on an earlier date, which it mentions: 1° In an emergency or in the case of urgent and necessary treatment of a medical condition; 2° In th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Discipline.

Article L1442-13-2

…t of a chamber of the Cour de cassation, appointed by the first president of the Cour de cassation, and comprises :1° A member of the Conseil d'Etat, appointed by the Vice-President of the Conseil d'E…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Sections.

Article L1423-1-2

…sponsible for cases where the employee involved in the dispute falls into the following categories: 1° Engineers as well as employees who, even if they do not exercise command, have equivalent trainin…

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