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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to insurance undertakings.

Article R332-3

In relation to the base of dispersion constituted by the difference between the total amount of the regulated commitments mentioned in Article R. 331-1, all currencies combined, and the total amount o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-33

…the following information by appropriate means of communication and technology, including the Internet, if necessary in several languages:-the list of bathing waters in the département referred to in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article L6364-3

…dotation globale de fonctionnement est instituée afin de contribuer à compenser les accroissements nets de charges de la collectivité de Saint-Martin résultant des transferts de compétences de l'Etat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Role of blood transfusion establishments.

Article R1221-39

In each blood establishment, a haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent is responsible for ensuring, under the authority of the person in charge:1° Collecting and keeping the information me…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 99-3

The investigating judge or the judicial police officer assigned by him may, by any means, request any person, private or public establishment or body or public administration likely to hold documents…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Evidentiary value of regular reports and remedies available to defendants against this legal authority.

Article 341 bis

…in order to guarantee customs debts of all kinds resulting from the said reports.2. The judge competent to hear the proceedings, including applications for validity, release, reduction or confinemen…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Entering into an innovation partnership

Article R2172-30

…ria defined in the consultation documents. The purchaser shall indicate in one of these documents whether it will make use of this possibility. At the end of each phase, it informs all tenderers whose…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Municipal services

Article L2573-32

The communes and their groupings may create public establishments, called communal centres and inter-communal centres for social action, to intervene in matters of social action, in compliance with lo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Economic development

Article L4424-30

…ly of Corsica in proportion to the groups and one-third representatives of national companies. It meets at the request of the Prime Minister or the Corsican Assembly. It leads and coordinates the acti…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VII: FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING PROVISIONS.

Article D1871-3

…heir groupings and their public establishments whose debt-reduction capacity, defined as the ratio between outstanding debt at the closing date of the accounts and gross savings for the past financial…

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