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French Sports CodeIn force
Preliminary sub-section: Common provisions

Article A322-3-3

The certificates referred to in 3° of article A. 322-3-1 of the French Sports Code are as follows: 1° The certificate of passing the "Pass nautique" test referred to in I of article A. 322-3-2 of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 804

…ns:1° For New Caledonia and French Polynesia, from the fifth paragraph of Article 398 and Articles 529-3 to 529-6 and article 706-157 which is applicable in these local authorities as drafted by the l…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5124-16

Subject to the provisions ofOrder no. 2014-948 of 20 August 2014 relating to the governance and capital transactions of publicly held companies, "Laboratoire français du fractionnement et des biotechn…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Checking and registering applications.

Article R123-95-1

When, in order to prove identity, the declarant produces a national identity card, passport or residence permit, issued by the French authorities, the court clerk verifies that it is valid within the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking, payment services and electronic money

Article L754-1

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Budgetary and accounting organisation

Article R1222-14

The Etablissement français du sang and its subsidiaries in which the establishment, alone or with the State or other public establishments, holds more than half of the capital or half of the votes in…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 14: Beef and veal, sheepmeat and pigmeat

Article R412-30

…Article 21(1), (3) and (5), Article 22(1) and (2), Article 23(1), (2), (3) and (5), Articles 28 and 29 and Article 30(1) to (3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1249/2008 of 10 December 2008 laying do…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Credit for hours worked

Article R2123-5

…f communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants and deputy mayors of communes with between 10,000 and 29,999 inhabitants;3° To seventy hours for municipal councillors of communes with at least 100,000 i…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: STAYS OF LESS THAN THREE MONTHS

Article L232-1

…assistance system referred to in Directive 2004/38 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside free…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation of elections.

Article L2314-10

…c Committee staff delegation. By-elections are held under the conditions set out in article L. 2314-29 to fill all vacant seats in the colleges concerned, on the basis of the provisions in force at th…

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