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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2-3

Officers of the judicial police, assisted, where appropriate, by the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1°, 1° bis and 1° ter of article 21, may inspect vehicles…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: International applications

Article L614-22

The provisions of Articles L. 614-19, L. 614-20 and L. 614-21 shall not apply where, since the applicant is not domiciled or headquartered in France, the Institut national de la propriété industrielle…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3: Access to detention facilities

Article R744-22

The delegate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or his representatives shall have access to detention facilities under conditions that guarantee their effective access…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 6: Right of withdrawal applicable to distance and off-premises contracts

Article L221-23

The consumer shall return or restitute the goods to the trader or to a person designated by the latter, without undue delay and, at the latest, within fourteen days of communicating his decision to wi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2425

Subrogations to mortgages, discharges, reductions, cessions of anteriority and transfers that have been granted, extensions of time limits, changes of domicile and, in general, all changes, particular…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Forfeiture of French nationality

Article 25

An individual who has acquired French nationality may, by decree issued after the assent of the Conseil d'Etat, be stripped of French nationality, unless the stripping results in the individual becomi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IV: Assessment of the tax

Article 273

1. Decrees in the Council of State shall determine the conditions of application of Article 271.They set out in particular:- the date on which the deductions may be made;- the adjustments to which the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF CORSICA

Article L4421-2

…llectivité de Corse is substituted for the collectivité territoriale de Corse instituted by the Loi n° 91-428 du 13 mai 1991 portant statut de la collectivité territoriale de Corse et aux départements…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Scope of application

Article 259

The place of supply of services is located in France:1° Where the customer is a taxable person acting as such and has in France:a) The seat of his economic activity, except where he has a fixed establ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Seasonal workers

Article R5221-25

Before entering France, the foreign national's seasonal employment contract is approved by the territorially competent Prefect in accordance with the criteria set out in article R. 5221-16 and subject…

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