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Conseil de la Concurrence
Website of the Conseil de la Concurrence, the French Competition Council. The Council advises the French Government on competition, and exercises jurisdiction when market competition is distorted. It investigates cartel agreements, abuses of dominant position and low price fixing, as reported to it by government, firms, local authorities, trade associations or other organisations. The site includes details of the Council's organisational and legislative background and an outline of its procedure. The Commercial Code and laws relevant to the Competition Council are included on the site.
Cour d'Appel de Paris
The website of the Cour d'Appel de Paris presents information on the administration of justice in the Paris region of France. The organisation, jurisdiction and history of the Court are described and information is provided about the remit of each of its chambers. There are links to the websites of the various branches of the legal profession. Recent statistics are available about the work of the Court. The site also provides details of the inferior courts in the area, together with some legal information for the public.
Cour d'Appel de Toulouse
The website of the Cour d'Appel de Toulouse gives an overview of the administration of justice in the French departments of Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Tarn, and Tarn-et-Garonne. Summaries of selected decisions of the Court are available, arranged by chamber and area of law; they date from around 1989 onwards and are not searchable. Statistics on the administration of justice are presented, together with information about the lower courts (tribunal de grand instance, tribunal d'instance, tribunal de commerce, and conseil des prud'hommes).
Juriguide: Votre Guide dans l'Internet Juridique
Index to 19th Century French Political Trials from the Labadie Collection
Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (TAAF)
The Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (TAAF) are French overseas possessions with administrative and financial autonomy. The TAAF website is provided by the Préfet, the administrative authority for the territories and includes legal information.
Congrès de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
Official website of the Congress of the French overseas territory of New Caledonia. The site provides a history of the institution and information on its composition and role, including a list of members. Laws, constitutional texts, political agreements, speeches and procedural rules of the Congress are available, and there is an events calendar. The site is in French only.
N-Lex
N-Lex provides a single search interface that can be used to search any of the national legislation websites of the EU member states. The search page is available in all 24 EU official languages. When searching by key words, either machine translation or the multilingual Eurovoc thesaurus can be used to translate them. For each state there is also general information about the types of legislation produced and the website to which the N-Lex search interface applies.
Cour de Cassation
The Cour de cassation is the highest court in France, with jurisdiction to review decisions arising from lower criminal and civil courts. It deals with questions of law and the application of law, not questions of fact. Its website provides a database of cases from 1947 onwards, together with background information about the court. English translations of some recent judgments are available on the 'International' page.