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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Provisions specific to bariatric surgery

Article D6124-287

The practice of bariatric surgery, mentioned in 3° of the I of article R. 6123-202, requires access at all times to equipment and instruments adapted to the care of patients suffering from obesity.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Transfer and transit.

Article 728-26

No transit request is required when the transfer is made by air without a scheduled stopover. However, in the event of an accidental landing on the territory of a Member State of the European Union, t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Transfer and transit.

Article 728-25

If the Member State to which transit is requested cannot guarantee that the sentenced person will not be prosecuted or subjected to a measure involving deprivation or restriction of liberty on its ter…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Transfer and transit.

Article 728-23

As soon as the competent authority of the executing State has indicated that it agrees to recognise the sentence and enforce it on its territory, the representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Transfer and transit.

Article 728-24

The Minister of Justice shall send a request for transit accompanied by a copy of the certificate to the competent authority of each Member State crossed on the occasion of the transfer. At the reques…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Serving the sentence.

Article 728-28

Enforcement of the sentence is governed by the law of the State in whose territory it is enforced.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Serving the sentence.

Article 728-29

Where the sentence is the subject of an amnesty, pardon, revision or any other decision or measure having the effect of depriving it, immediately or otherwise, of its enforceability, the representativ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-21

When the representative of the public prosecutor is consulted by the competent authority of the executing State on partial recognition of the sentencing decision, he or she shall examine whether an ag…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-20

When the sentenced person is on the territory of the executing State, the public prosecutor may ask the competent authority of that State, when forwarding the sentencing decision and the certificate,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Consent to prosecution or enforcement of a sentence for another offence

Article 728-27

Where, before or after the transfer of the sentenced person, the competent authority of the administering State requests the representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office to agree that the sentence…

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