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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of financial penalties imposed by foreign authorities

Article D48-18

Under the provisions of the fifth paragraph of Article 707-1, the public prosecutor shall pursue the enforcement of financial penalties imposed by the competent authorities of the Member States of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable to professional non-trading companies

Article R743-108

Publicity of the transfer of shares, accompanied, where applicable, by a reduction in the share capital pursuant to the article 21 of Law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966, shall be completed in accordan…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee.

Article R2573-44

The amount of taxes, duties and fees mentioned in Article 52 of Organic Law No. 2004-192 of 27 February 2004 on the autonomous status of French Polynesia is that entered in the administrative account…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article L441-6-1

Articles L. 436-10 to L. 436-13 are applicable to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in the wording resulting from the law no. 2022-1726 of 30 December 2022 on finances for 2023.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L1321-4

The conditions under which assets made available, pursuant to article L. 1321-2, may be transferred in full ownership to the beneficiary local authority are defined by law.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General principles

Article L1611-1

No expenditure chargeable to the State or a public establishment of a national nature may be imposed directly or indirectly on local authorities or their groupings except by virtue of the law.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Dilatory defences.

Article 108

The judge must suspend the proceedings where the party requesting it enjoys either a period for taking inventory and deliberating, or the benefit of discussion or division, or some other waiting perio…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Rules specific to non-contentious matters.

Article 25

The judge rules on non-contentious matters when, in the absence of litigation, he is seized of a claim which the law requires, by reason of the nature of the case or the status of the claimant, to be…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article 366-3

The first president, after obtaining the opinion of the public prosecutor at the court of appeal, verifies that the application is based on one of the cases of taking sides provided for by law.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Property in relation to those who own it

Article 537

Private individuals have free disposal of the property belonging to them, subject to the modifications established by the laws. Property that does not belong to private individuals is administered and…

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