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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article L71-111-15

…4132-17, as well as to any interested person, under the conditions provided for in Article L. 4132-16.Transmitted by the local authority to the State representative and the local authority's accounti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-17

The magistrate mentioned in Article R. 53-16 and, at his request, the members of the committee provided for in the same article shall have permanent access to the file and to the place where it is loc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and operation

Article R1435-30

…ns of I do not apply to:1° To the financing of the actions mentioned in 1° of III of article R 1435-16;2° To funding that does not exceed the threshold mentioned in the fourth paragraph of article 10…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Bodies

Article R4021-14

…nd salaried health professionals in health centres covered by the agreements defined in articles L. 162-5, L. 162-9, L. 162-12-2, L. 162-12-9, L. 162-14, L. 162-16-1 and L. 162-32-1 of the Social Secu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Elections

Article R4441-4

…ench Polynesia, each disciplinary chamber referred to in articles L. 4441-2, L. 4441-13 and L. 4441-16 comprises, in addition to its president, four full members and four alternate members elected by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Post-authorisation studies

Article R5141-48

…l products that already have a marketing authorisation" within the meaning of 6° of article L. 5141-16, hereinafter referred to as "post-authorisation studies", means studies carried out under the res…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Bodies and operations

Article L5842-4

…1-525 of 17 May 2011 L. 5211-9 law no. 2018-607 of 13 July 2018 L. 5211-9-1 law no. 2001-1248 of 21 December 2001 L. 5211-9-2 with the exception of the third and last two paragraphs of A of I, the fir…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Tasks and activities of internal-use pharmacies

Article R5126-9-1

…of 11 May 2020 extending the state of health emergency and supplementing its provisions or law no. 2021-689 of 31 May 2021 relating to the management of the end of health crises, he/she is exempt fro…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L111-7

…raph of I applies to group insurance contracts and subscriptions concluded or made no later than 20 December 2012 and to these contracts and subscriptions tacitly renewed after this date. The derogati…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised inter-regional courts in economic and financial matters

Article 704

…aire et financier ; 4° Délits prévus par le Section II of Chapter Va of Ordinance no. 58-1270 of 22 December 1958 concerning the organic law on the status of the judiciary. The public prosecutor, afte…

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