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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-71

Any request to make information available shall be the subject of a report by the judicial police officer indicating the recipient of the request and the nature of the information requested. In the ca…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Summoning judicial police officers who have made a declaration of address

Article R15-33-76

The police services or gendarmerie units are required, at the request of the judicial authorities alone, to issue as soon as possible to the persons referred to in articles 16 to 29 who have been subj…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-74

The judicial police officer notes receipt of the information requested in the report and either prints it out on paper or saves it in full on a digital medium that complies with the technical standard…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-70

Only judicial police officers assigned to a service or unit carrying out judicial police duties and who have been expressly authorised to do so by the head of the service or unit may make such request…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-75

Personal data collected pursuant to this section may not be processed by automatic means, with the exception of the processing required for use in criminal legal proceedings.The personal data collecte…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Shareholding and control.

Article D214-32-7

For the purpose of calculating the percentage of voting rights held by the AIF, account is taken, in addition to the voting rights held directly by the AIF, of the voting rights of an undertaking whic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 12: The draft plan.

Article R631-34-7

For the application of article

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Common provisions.

Article R711-75-3

Contracts containing arbitration clauses and compromises entered into by the network's institutions are communicated to the competent supervisory authority pursuant to Article R. 712-2. Where applicab…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions applicable before the Assize Court

Article D47-37-7

…37-5, it orders the accused to be transferred to a subsequent hearing of the Assize Court, which proceeds in the same way as in the case of a transfer ordered by the investigating court. This committa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Internal control

Article R561-38-7

…33, which has as a subsidiary or branch at least one person mentioned in 1° to 2°e, 6°, with the exception of financial investment advisors and providers of participative financing services in respec…

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