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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Tax officials entrusted with certain judicial police duties

Article R15-33-29-15

…r staff reports and the staff reports provided for in article R. 15-33-29-14 shall be drawn up on a form complying with the model laid down by the Minister of Justice. They include a detailed general…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article R50-60

…t, to the interested party. It may only be appealed to the Supreme Court if it does not satisfy, in form, the essential conditions for its legal existence.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXa: Directory of personal data collected in the context of legal proceedings, known as "Redex".

Article R53-21-17

…t, to the interested party. It may only be appealed to the Supreme Court if it does not satisfy, in form, the essential conditions for its legal existence.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to the recognition and enforcement by the French judicial authorities of a European Investigation Order issued by another Member State

Article D47-1-10

…l acknowledge receipt thereof without delay, and in any event within one week of receipt, using the form set out in Annex B to Directive 2014/41/EU of 3 April 2014 referred to above.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial securities.

Article D211-9-3

Where the units or shares of undertakings for collective investment are in registered form, the registered intermediary is required, within ten business days of the request for identification made pur…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Candidacy requirements

Article R1441-16

…enabling professional and managerial staff to be registered in the employers' section, may take the form of a specific document or be included in the employment contract. In the absence of such a dele…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Disposals, acquisitions and transfers

Article R1333-154

…subject to prior registration with the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, using a form issued by this body, except in the cases defined by the decision provided for in 1° of Article…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: BODIES OF THE MUNICIPALITY

Article R2124-3

The formal notice sent by the prefect to the mayor or president of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation, in the cases provided for in article L. 2124-3, may be made either by lette…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: MUNICIPAL ASSETS

Article R2241-6

For real estate acquisitions made in administrative form by municipalities and their public establishments, a deposit may be paid to the seller, upon expiry of the time periods open for taking registr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Compulsory expenditure

Article D2321-16

…ation establishment, which was municipal on 1 January 1986, the date of transfer of responsibility, forms part of a school complex comprising one or more other establishments, the expenditure to be ap…

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