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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4 - Individual right to training

Article R4135-19-1

…he individual right are training courses relating to the exercise of the regional council member's mandate and training courses contributing to the acquisition of the skills required, where applicable…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 3: The procedure for judging the entire dispute

Article 1563

…on pain of nullity, by Article 58, the application shall contain a statement of the grounds of fact and law and shall be accompanied by the list of documents referred to in the third paragraph of arti…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 3: The procedure for judging the entire dispute

Article 1564

…her cases, the applicant's lawyer is informed by the court registry, as soon as the application is handed over, of the date of the first useful hearing at which the case will be called. This date is b…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 3: The procedure for judging the entire dispute

Article 1562

Where the dispute persists in its entirety, the judge may hear it: - either in accordance with the rules governing the procedure applicable before him; - or in accordance with the procedures laid down…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Designation of tax officials responsible for carrying out certain judicial police duties

Article A36-10-1

For the application of Article R. 15-33-29-7 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the list of candidates admitted to take the technical examination to qualify for the duties of tax service agent respons…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Examination for admission to the traineeship

Article A321-18

The tests are marked from 0 to 20.Each mark is assigned the coefficient laid down for the corresponding test.Marks of less than 7/20, with the exception of that obtained in the optional language test,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Examination for admission to the traineeship

Article A321-16

…e marking of the eligibility tests is organised in such a way as to preserve the anonymity of each candidate. Each composition is examined by two markers and given a mark from 0 to 20. This mark is as…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Examination for admission to the traineeship

Article A321-14

…ch is assigned a coefficient of 3;2° A theoretical test lasting four hours on knowledge of the arts and techniques, the mark for which is assigned a coefficient of 3.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Examination for admission to the traineeship

Article A321-15

Candidates may use codes or compendia of laws and decrees containing no indication of doctrine or case law, with no notes other than references to legislative or regulatory texts.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Examination for admission to the traineeship

Article A321-19

Admission is decided by the selection board if the average of the marks obtained by the candidate in all the eligibility and admission tests is equal to or higher than 10 out of 20.The mark obtained i…

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