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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV: Procedure applicable to breaches of automated data processing systems

Article 706-72-2

The public prosecutor at a judicial court other than that of Paris may, for offences falling within the scope of Article 706-72, request the investigating judge to relinquish jurisdiction in favour of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV: Procedure applicable to breaches of automated data processing systems

Article 706-72-3

Where it appears to the examining magistrate of the Paris Judicial Court that the acts referred to him do not constitute one of the offences falling within the scope of Article 706-72 and do not fall…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV: Procedure applicable to breaches of automated data processing systems

Article 706-72-6

Any order made on the basis of articles 706-72-2 or 706-72-3 by which an examining magistrate decides to relinquish jurisdiction or by which the examining magistrate of the Paris Judicial Court decide…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised courts

Article 706-75-1

Within each judicial court whose territorial jurisdiction is extended to the jurisdiction of one or more courts of appeal, the public prosecutor and the first president, after consulting the public pr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised courts

Article 706-75-2

Notwithstanding the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 380-1, in the event of an appeal against a decision of an assize court whose territorial jurisdiction has been extended to the jurisdi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised courts

Article 706-79-1

…nates, in consultation with the other public prosecutors in the inter-regional jurisdiction, the conduct of public action policy for the application of this article.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-7

Once a reference medicinal product, within the meaning of 5° of Article L. 5121-1, or a reference biological medicinal product, within the meaning of 15° of the same Article, is covered by a compassio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 148-7

When the person under investigation, the accused or the defendant is detained, the application for release may also be made by means of a declaration to the head of the penitentiary establishment. Thi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Modification, suspension, withdrawal and non-renewal of early access authorisation

Article R5121-72

…e applicable, this decision is taken after receiving the assent of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Healt…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D214-32-7-7

In its notification to the company concerned, the AIF or its management company shall ask the company's board of directors or its equivalent to forward without delay to the employees' representatives…

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