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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1321-12

…om the Director General of the Regional Health Agency or at the request of the authorisation holder and in accordance with the procedure laid down in I of article R. 1321-7, issue an order amending th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1321-13

…L. 1321-2 for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption may cover separate plots of land.Within the immediate protection perimeter, the boundaries of which are established in order to p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1321-10

…ector General of the Regional Health Agency will, at the expense of the holder of the authorisation and within two months of being notified, have analyses carried out to check the quality of the water…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: List of essential information to be provided by the State representative (R).

Article D1612-1

…A statement indicating the forecast amount of the net bases of each of the four direct local taxes and the tax for the removal of household waste chargeable to the municipality, the net tax rates ado…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Relations between the High Council and its foreign counterparts

Article R821-18

Information and documents received by the High Council in the context of cooperation with the competent authorities of other Member States of the European Union exercising competences similar to its o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Relations between the High Council and its foreign counterparts

Article R821-17

…rposes unrelated to the performance of the missions of the requesting authority, to the supervision and control of persons in charge of statutory audit or to the implementation of procedures relating…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Relations between the High Council and its foreign counterparts

Article R821-16

…uthorities, its chairman shall without delay take the necessary measures to collect the information and documents or to carry out the control operations that are the subject of the request.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Relations between the High Council and its foreign counterparts

Article R821-19

…nform the competent authority of that State, specifying the reasons that led him to this conclusion and the factual elements that gave rise to it. Where the High Council is informed by a competent aut…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Insurance on goods transported by all modes of transport

Article L173-17-1

The insurance of transported goods has no effect when the risks have not begun within two months of the commitment of the parties or of the date fixed for taking over. This provision is only applicabl…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Supervision of the operator of a physical activity or sports establishment

Article A322-1

…of the administrative authority, when requesting the issue of bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record and the information contained in the automated national judicial file of perpetrators of sexual or v…

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