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Drivers from France may soon be subject to new alcohol limit when visiting Spain
The new measure is expected to be rolled out in 2025
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What is the process if Brexit card holder’s passport is stamped by mistake?
Manual stamping of passports will soon be phased out
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Is property declaration form required for French second homes this year?
The Biens immobiliers form was introduced in 2023
What is a tribunal de proximité?
I wish to take legal action and was told to apply to a tribunal de proximité . What is this?

This term is new this year, as part of a reform which abolished the terms tribunal d’instance and tribunal de grande instance (for more important cases). In theory they are all now absorbed into a service called tribunal judiciaire, but in smaller towns that only had a tribunal d’instance these are now deemed a local branch attached to a court in a bigger centre, and are described as tribunal de proximité.