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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter II: Searching for information

Article L152-2

Institutions authorised by law to hold deposit accounts must inform the enforcement agent whether one or more accounts, joint accounts or merged accounts have been opened in the name of the debtor, as…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L331-2

Creditors who are required to declare their claim and who fail to do so are deprived of the benefit of their security for the distribution of the sale price of the immovable.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: Rules applicable to certain contracts according to their purpose

Article L2172-2

Public authorities subject to the obligation to decorate public buildings award contracts for the purpose of fulfilling this obligation and choose the contractor after obtaining the opinion of an arti…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Book IV: PROVISIONS RELATING TO OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS

Article L1400-2

The provisions of this Code apply ipso jure to Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, subject to the provisions of the titles devoted to each of these collectivities in the book…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Formalising requirements through technical specifications

Article L2111-2

The works, supplies or services to be provided under the public contract are defined by reference to technical specifications.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2141-2

Persons who have not made the declarations required of them in terms of tax or social security or who have not paid the taxes, levies, contributions or social security contributions due are excluded f…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Call for tenders

Article L2124-2

An open or restricted invitation to tender is a procedure whereby the purchaser selects the most economically advantageous tender, without negotiation, on the basis of objective criteria made known to…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Title II: ECONOMIC OPERATORS, APPLICANTS AND BIDDERS

Article L1220-2

…economic operator who asks to take part or is invited to take part in a procedure for awarding a public procurement contract.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Preliminary book: MIXED PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Article L2000-2

Where a purchaser concludes a contract intended to satisfy objectively indissociable requirements which are subject, on the one hand, to the ordinary law on contracts provided for in Book I of this Pa…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: Contracts comprising inseparable services

Article L1322-2

When a conceding authority concludes a single contract relating to objectively indissociable services which are covered both by the ordinary law of contracts provided for in Book I of Part Two or Book…

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