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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Interception of correspondence sent by electronic communications

Article 100-4

…under the latter's supervision, the judicial police officer draws up a report of each interception and recording operation. This report shall mention the date and time when the operation began and wh…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Interception of correspondence sent by electronic communications

Article 100-7

No interception may take place on the line of a member of parliament or senator without the president of the assembly to which he or she belongs being informed by the investigating judge. No intercept…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Interception of correspondence sent by electronic communications

Article 100-5

…pain of nullity, correspondence with a lawyer relating to the exercise of the rights of the defence and covered by the professional secrecy of the defence and counsel, provided for in article 66-5 of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Interception of correspondence sent by electronic communications

Article 100-8

…erns a communication address that is used on the territory of a Member State of the European Union, and when it is not carried out within the framework of a European investigation decision, the examin…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1048 ter

…either by the State or one of its public establishments pursuant to articles L. 2122-5 à L. 2122-14 and L. 2122-17 to L. 2122-19 of the General Code on the Ownership of Public Persons or Article 13 of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1039 A

Subject to the provisions of article 1020, transfers made to a professional economic development committee governed by the loi n° 78-654 du 22 juin 1978, of assets of any kind belonging to an organisa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : The President of the Territorial Council and the Executive Council

Article LO6432-10

The powers of the Executive Council expire at the opening of the first meeting of the Territorial Council following its full renewal.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Work involving exposure to dangerous chemical agents

Article D4152-10

It is prohibited to assign or maintain pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers in workstations exposing them to the following chemical agents: 1° Chemical agents that meet the criteria for classifica…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable to professional non-trading companies

Article R814-109

…tés civiles professionnelles d'administrateurs judiciaires or sociétés civiles professionnelles de mandataires judiciaires. Each partner has the status of associate judicial administrator, or associat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation

Article R4422-10

Members of the Corsican economic, social, environmental and cultural council are appointed for six years. Seats declared vacant are filled within two months of the vacancy being established by the Pre…

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