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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Withdrawal of communes.

Article L5212-29

…19, a commune may be authorised by the representative of the State in the department, after receiving the opinion of the departmental commission for inter-communal cooperation meeting in the formation…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L5711-4

In matters of water and watercourse management, drinking water supply, collective or non-collective sanitation, collection or treatment of household and similar waste, or distribution of electricity o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVII: Prosecution, investigation and judgment of offences relating to procuring or the use of prostitution of minors

Article R51-1

As soon as proceedings are initiated, where they concern an establishment whose owner or operator is registered in the Trade and Companies Register, the Public Prosecutor shall send the Registrar of t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7a: Forestry and insurance investment account

Article D221-121

…e conditions mentioned in 1° of article L. 352-1 of the French Forestry Code is provided by producing a copy or notarised certificate of the title to the forests concerned, or an extract from the cada…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Legal interest rate.

Article D313-1-A

I. - For each of the categories mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 313-2, the legal interest rate applicable for a given half-year is calculated as follows:1° For claims by natural person…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Administrative penalties.

Article L8272-2

When the administrative authority is aware of an official report of an infringement provided for in 1° to 4° of Article L. 8211-1 or of a report drawn up by one of the control officers mentioned inArt…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Harvesting haematopoietic cells collected from bone marrow or peripheral blood from a donor of full age who is the subject of a legal protection measure with representation relating to the person

Article R1241-8

If the guardianship judge considers that the protected person does not have the capacity to consent to the donation, he shall refer the matter by any means to the committee of experts referred to in a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Principles of justification, optimisation and limitation

Article R1333-9

…his activity complies with the principle of justification set out in 1° of Article L. 1333-2 , taking into account :1° The protection of the interests mentioned in Article L. 1333-7 ; 2° The effective…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Business secrecy.

Article R463-13

…purposes of Article L. 463-4, when a person requests protection of business confidentiality with regard to items communicated by him to the Autorité de la concurrence or seized from him by the latter…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special provisions for sales by judicial auction.

Article R642-29-1

The schedule of conditions of sale shall be filed by the pursuer at the registry of the enforcement judge of the competent judicial court within two months of the publication of the order of the offic…

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