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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-19-1

…owing the transmission of the request sent by the Court of Audit to the de facto accounting officer and the authorising officer of the local authority concerned.The deliberative assemblies must decide…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-10-1

…t international sports events, as well as the organisers of national or international sports events and their agents who, in the course of their duties, become aware of any of the offences referred to…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-13-1

…luding the athlete's home, where the test can be carried out while respecting the athlete's privacy and intimacy; 4° In the custody of an athlete suspected of having committed one of the offences set…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-12-1

…in accordance with the provisions of Law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information, files and freedoms, under conditions set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-14-1

Independently of the application of the provisions of Articles L. 232-13-1 and L. 232-14, the testing operations mentioned in Article L. 232-12 as well as those falling within the competence of the in…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-15-1

…o ceases to belong to this pool due to the decision taken by the person concerned to definitively abandon competition, must inform the Agency and his International Federation, in writing, of his inten…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-1

When the Secretary General of the Agence française de lutte contre le dopage decides to carry out the investigations mentioned in 3° of I of article L. 232-5, he shall authorise the investigators in a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Difficulties in formation and operation.

Article L1423-10-1

In the event of an interruption in the operation of the industrial tribunal or serious difficulties making it impossible to operate under normal conditions, the first president of the court of appeal…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Donation and use of gametes.

Article L1244-1-1

Gynaecologists regularly inform their patients about egg donation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Links of interest and transparency

Article L1451-1-1

Publicity for meetings of the expert commissions, boards and collegiate bodies mentioned in I of article L. 1451-1 and which are consulted as part of administrative decision-making procedures is organ…

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