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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Radiation protection inspector

Article R1333-168

…the first paragraph of Article L. 1333-29 from among its staff, as defined inArticle 16 of Law No. 2017-55 of 20 January 2017 on the general status of independent administrative authorities and indep…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 1: Remuneration of the administrator.

Article R663-5

…ned by an order made pursuant to Article L. 444-3 in consideration of the debtor's turnover. Above €20,000,000, the provisions of Article R. 663-13 are applicable.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Caisse des dépôts et consignations

Article D775-7

…Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeD. 518-0-2 and D. 518-43 to D. 518-50no. 2019-1198 of 20 November 2019

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The procedure provided for in III to V of Article L. 752-17

Article R752-40

When a project relates to a facility with a sales area of more than 20,000 square metres, the secretariat of the departmental commission must, within ten clear days of receiving the application for co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Accounting

Article D4425-47

…the warrants and supporting documents for expenditure, indicated in Articles D. 1617-19 and D. 1617-20, to the issue slips that he sends to the accounting officer of the Corsican regional authority, w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-14

For the application of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, done at The Hague on 14 May 1954, and the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Conditions relating to completion

Article 311-12

Audiovisual works are made, in a minimum proportion fixed by the decree of 21 May 1992 taken for the application ofarticle 6 of decree no. 90-66 of 17 January 1990 laying down the general principles c…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-10

…pensation fund, the delegated production company must complete and submit, electronically by 31 May 2023 at the latest, a form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, together…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Multi-professional practice partnerships

Article R422-51-16

…ion. This declaration shall be accompanied by the documents provided for in Article 2 of Decree no. 2017-794 of 5 May 2017 relating to the formation, operation and supervision of multi-professional le…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L4421-2

…rse is substituted for the collectivité territoriale de Corse instituted by the Loi n° 91-428 du 13 mai 1991 portant statut de la collectivité territoriale de Corse et aux départements de Corse-du-Sud…

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