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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Land transport.

Article 77

1. Every driver of goods must, on arrival at the customs office, submit to the customs department, by way of summary declaration, a waybill indicating the items he is carrying. 2. Prohibited goods mus…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Pre-contractual information, commercial practices, contracts and credit

Article L511-7

Officers are empowered to investigate and record infringements or breaches of the provisions: 1° Regulation (EU) 2021/782 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 on rail passeng…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 3: Ski lifts and ski runs.

Article L342-7

…way installations and repealing Directive 2000/9/EC, as well as cableway installations used to service mountain refuges referred to in Article 2(2)(d) of the same Regulation.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Transport by sea.

Article 72

…Within twenty-four hours of the vessel's arrival in port, the master must lodge at the customs office : a) as a summary declaration : - the cargo manifest, with an authentic translation if necessary…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Judicial restraint

Article 750

The maximum duration of the judicial constraint is set as follows:

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 779

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the measures necessary for the implementation of articles 768 to 778, and in particular the conditions under which bulletins no. 1, 2 and 3 of the crimin…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3: Provisions specific to the surrender of a foreign national who, having exercised a right of mobility, does not meet the conditions for residence on French territory

Article L621-7

…mily members, admitted to reside in the territory of this State and benefiting from mobility in France in accordance with Directive (EU) 2016/801 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 Ma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 706

…least equal to four years of higher education after the baccalaureate who meet the conditions for access to the civil service and provide proof of a minimum of four years' professional experience. Spe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Data and methods of transmission to the health authority

Article R3113-7

…are informed by the doctors and managers of the medical biology departments and laboratories who process them of the procedures for processing their personal data and of their rights. They may not opp…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised inter-regional courts in economic and financial matters

Article 704

…ld appear to be of great complexity, due in particular to the large number of perpetrators, accomplices or victims or the geographical jurisdiction over which they extend, the territorial jurisdiction…

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