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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 399

The number and day of correctional hearings are set by joint decision of the president of the judicial court and the public prosecutor. The same applies to the provisional composition of these hearing…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: General information.

Article 38

…d. 2. Where import or export is permitted only on presentation of an authorisation, licence, certificate, etc., the goods are prohibited if they are not accompanied by a regular document of title or i…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article 342

…or if the goods declared have not given rise to any observations. To this end, information, certificates, reports and other documents supplied or drawn up by the authorities of foreign countries may…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article 344

…action against the estate with a view to having the president of the judicial court order the confiscation of the objects liable to this penalty or, if it has not been possible to seize them, to order…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article 343

…thorisation of the public prosecutor, this action may be taken by the customs authorities, in which case article 350 of the present code shall apply. In the same proceedings, the customs administratio…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General rules.

Article 382

…enforced by any legal means. 2. Articles 749 to 762 of the Code of Criminal Procedure are also applicable to fines and value confiscation ordered for customs offences and contraventions. 3 (paragraph…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of parental authority by separated parents

Article 373-2-3

…granting the child an indexed annuity in return, the relinquishment of usufruct property or the allocation of income-producing assets, under the terms and guarantees set out in the decision, deed or a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Duties towards patients.

Article R4127-37-3

…t, in the situations provided for in 1° and 2° of Article L. 1110-5-2, deep and continuous sedation causing an alteration in consciousness maintained until death, associated with analgesia and the ces…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Subcontracting of preparations to a pharmaceutical manufacturing establishment

Article R5125-33-3

I.-The categories of magistral preparations that may be subcontracted by a dispensing pharmacy to a pharmaceutical establishment authorised to manufacture medicinal products are : 1° Preparations obta…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title IX bis: Hearing children in court.

Article 338-3

The decision ordering the hearing may take the form of a simple mention in the file or in the hearing register.

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