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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article L2511-22

…cil the power to prepare, award, execute and settle contracts for works, supplies and services that may be awarded without prior formalities due to their amount. When this delegation is granted to a b…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L5111-1

Territorial authorities may associate for the exercise of their competences by creating public cooperation bodies in the forms and conditions provided for by the legislation in force. The category of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Operation.

Article L5212-16

A commune may join a syndicate for only some of the competences exercised by the syndicate. In this case, the decision to set up the syndicate or an amending decision determines the list of communes t…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IIc : Mobile electronic anti-seizure devices for the protection of victims of violence

Article 1136-17

…nces separating the two parties. The pre-alert distance, expressed as a whole number of kilometres, may not be less than one kilometre or more than ten kilometres. The warning distance, expressed as a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Educational assistance

Article 1184

…5 of the Civil Code, as well as the information measures provided for in article 1183 of this code, may only be taken, except in the case of a specially-reasoned emergency, if the hearing prescribed b…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter VI: Disputes relating to the award of private law public procurement contracts

Article 1441-3

I.-The review provided for in Article 11 of the aforementioned Order may be brought before the court no later than the thirty-first day following the publication in the Official Journal of the Europea…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII ter: Placement under mobile electronic surveillance as a security measure

Article 763-10

…itting a new offence. This examination is carried out by the sentence enforcement judge; the latter may seek the opinion of the multi-disciplinary committee for security measures composed in accordanc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 7: Provisions relating to the implementation of other resolution measures

Article L613-56-2

I. - Subject to the provisions of III and V of Article L. 613-57-1, the collège de résolution may release the financial instruments defined in Article L. 211-1, rights, assets or commitments of the pe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Suspicious transaction reports

Article L621-17-7

…3/124/ EC, 2003/125/ EC and 2004/72/ EC, no proceedings based onArticle 226-13 of the Criminal Code may be brought against the directors and officers of the persons mentioned in Article 16 of the same…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions of professional competence.

Article R512-13-1

…devoted to the continuing professional training or development mentioned in II of article L. 511-2 may not be less than fifteen hours per year. II -The continuing professional training or development…

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