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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for informing the public about the guarantee granted.

Article D313-30

Beneficiaries of the surety undertakings referred to in article D. 313-26 may obtain, on simple request to the Fonds de garantie des dépôts et de résolution, additional information on the conditions o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Information obligations on the establishment

Article R3211-31

…onsecutively but whose cumulative duration is reached over a period of fifteen days. II - When the doctor decides to take a new seclusion or restraint measure before the expiry of a period of forty-ei…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-31

I.-For the application of article D. 4425-30: a) The population to be taken into account is the sum of the total populations, municipal and counted separately, of the Corsican local authority, as it r…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-32

The statements annexed to the budget documents pursuant to article L. 4425-18 are as follows: I.-Statements annexed to the budget and the administrative account: 1° Tables summarising the status of bo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-33

The certified accounts referred to in article L. 4425-19 are certified by an auditor for bodies subject to the obligation to certify their accounts and by the chairman of the body concerned, for bodie…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-30

…y data on the financial situation of the Corsican local authority, provided for in 1° of Article L. 4425-18, include the following ratios: 1° Real operating expenditure / population; > 2° Actual opera…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article R5211-3

…body of one of the public establishments of inter-communal cooperation mentioned in articles L. 5214-1, L. 5215-1, and L. 5216-1 are assimilated respectively to the mayor, deputy mayors and municipal…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 308

…it is used during the deliberation, the formalities provided for in the third paragraph of article 347 shall apply. The sound or audiovisual recording may also be used before the Assize Court ruling o…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article R111-4-5

I.-For the application of Article L. 111-4-1, the following sports and leisure articles are subject to the provisions of this article: 1° Bicycles, as defined in Article 1 of Decree no. 2016-364 of 29…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Antenatal diagnostics: prenatal diagnosis and pre-implantation diagnosis.

Article L2131-4-1

By way of derogation from the sixth paragraph ofArticle L. 2131-4, and subject to having exhausted all the possibilities offered by Articles L. 1241-1 to L. 1241-7, pre-implantation diagnosis may also…

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