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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 5: Expert assessment period

Article L2315-85

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat determines: 1° For each category of expert appraisal, the maximum period within which the expert must submit his report, in the absence of a company agreement or an agre…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Scope of expertise

Article L2315-79

A company agreement, or failing that, an agreement concluded between the employer and the Social and Economic Committee, adopted by a majority of the elected full members of the staff delegation, dete…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Employee representative in a chamber of agriculture.

Article L2411-20

In accordance withArticle L. 515-4 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, the procedure for authorising dismissal and the periods and duration of protection for employee representatives in a C…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Procedures for the exercise of judicial police functions by authorised judicial environmental officers

Article R15-33-29-31

The provisions of articles R. 15-33-18 and R. 15-33-21 to R. 15-33-24 are applicable to the exercise of judicial police missions by authorised judicial environmental officers.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: Exercise by a taxpayer of shares belonging to the public establishment for intermunicipal cooperation

Article R5211-49

In the case provided for in article L. 5211-58, the taxpayer is issued with a receipt for the detailed statement of case that it has sent to the administrative court. The prefect, to whom the matter h…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: Exercise by a taxpayer of shares belonging to the public establishment for intermunicipal cooperation

Article R5211-52

The administrative court or the Conseil d'Etat may, if they grant the authorisation, make its effect subject to the prior deposit of the costs of the proceedings. In this case, they shall set the sum…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: Exercise by a taxpayer of shares belonging to the public establishment for intermunicipal cooperation

Article R5211-50

Where the administrative court does not rule within two months or where authorisation is refused, the taxpayer may appeal to the Conseil d'Etat.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: Exercise by a taxpayer of shares belonging to the public establishment for intermunicipal cooperation

Article R5211-51

An appeal to the Conseil d'Etat shall, on pain of forfeiture, be lodged within one month of either the expiry of the period allowed to the administrative court to rule or the notification of the refus…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Rights and obligations of the expert

Article L2315-84

The expert is bound by the obligations of secrecy and discretion defined in article L. 2315-3.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Rights and obligations of the expert

Article L2315-82

The experts referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 shall have free access to the company for the purposes of their assignment.

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