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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Cooperation

Article L612-46

The guarantee funds referred to in Articles L. 312-4, L. 313-50 and L. 322-2 of this Code, L. 421-1 and L. 423-1 of the French Insurance Code, L. 431-1 of the French Mutual Code and L. 931-35 of the F…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Surface fresh water used or intended to be used for the production of water intended for human consumption

Article R1321-40

The Prefect, after verification by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency that the decision will not have consequences contrary to the health of persons, may derogate from the quality limi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: School and university health services.

Article L2325-4

As stated in article…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions.

Article D333-4

Residential leisure parks operated as hotels are intended for light leisure dwellings, mobile leisure homes and caravans. They consist of bare pitches or pitches equipped with one of these facilities,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Companies with fifty or more employees.

Article L2143-4

In undertakings with at least five hundred employees, any trade union that is representative in the undertaking may appoint an additional trade union delegate if it has obtained one or more elected re…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Organisation of the commune

Article L2573-4

The articles L. 2114-1 to L. 2114-3 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia, subject to the insertion, in article L. 2114-1, after the words: "decree of the Conseil d'Etat," of the words: "…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Financial and accounting system

Article R1313-40

Revenue and imprest accounts may be set up in accordance with the provisions of Decree no. 2019-798 of 26 July 2019 on the revenue and imprest accounts of public bodies.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-40

Agreements between the State, on the one hand, and the department or the competent authority for the organisation of urban transport, on the other hand, may provide for: 1° The transmission of compute…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 10: Links with companies

Article R1413-42

The provisions of article R. 4113-110 are applicable, when they are not members of the health professions, to members of the boards and committees sitting with the Agency and to persons occasionally c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 11: Penal provisions

Article R1413-43

Failure to provide the information requested by the Agence nationale de santé publique under the conditions set out in articles R. 1413-34 and R. 1413-35 is punishable by a 5th class fine.

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