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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R310

The article R. 93 applies in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands subject to the following adaptations:1° For its application in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, 1° of I is…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment rules

Article R214-11

I. - The eligible financial securities and money market instruments referred to in I of article L. 214-20 are :1° Either eligible financial securities and money market instruments admitted to trading…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Management of income from the exploitation of rights

Article L324-14

Collective management organisations take the necessary measures to identify and locate rightholders. In particular, no later than three months after the expiry of the deadline set in I of Article L. 3…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative penalties

Article L241-2

In the contracts mentioned in article L. 212-1, the presence of one or more unfair terms covered by the decree issued pursuant to the fourth paragraph of Article L. 212-1 is punishable by an administr…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-10

Applications made pursuant to Articles 41, 50, Article 56(6), Article 57 or Article 68(2) and (3) of Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 of 25 June 2019 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and e…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 7

Public prosecution of crimes shall be barred after twenty years have elapsed from the day on which the offence was committed.Public prosecution of the crimes mentioned in Articles 706-16,706-26and 706…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Judicial supervision, house arrest and pre-trial detention

Article 137-3

The liberty and custody judge rules by means of a reasoned order. When he orders or extends pre-trial detention or rejects an application for release, the order must include a statement of the legal a…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Delegated federations

Article L131-16-1

Access by a delegated sports federation to personal information relating to gambling transactions, with a view to the implementation of a possible sanction procedure against a player in a sports compe…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 6: Disciplinary sanctions

Article R222-39

In the event of a breach of articles L. 222-5, L. 222-7, L. 222-10, L. 222-12 to L. 222-14, L. 222-17, L. 222-18, R. 222-35 and R. 222-36 as well as the provisions of the sports agents' regulations en…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Special provisions for certain types of research

Article L1127-3

The research referred to in 1° of Article L. 1121-1 relating to devices incorporating products of human or animal origin, or in the manufacture of which products of human or animal origin are involved…

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