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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Common provisions

Article L5211-4-3

In order to pool resources, a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status may acquire assets that it shares with its member communes in accordance with the terms and c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article R15-17-4

Investigation assistants shall have access to the case file for the performance of the tasks entrusted to them and shall be bound by professional secrecy under the conditions of Article 11. They may n…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIa: Socio-judicial supervision

Article R61-4-1

Where the expert opinion provided for in the third paragraph of article 763-3 establishes that the sentenced person may be the subject of treatment, the sentence enforcement judge, by a ruling made in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XI: The European Public Prosecutor's Office

Article D47-1-45

Where, in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 696-109, the Deputy European Public Prosecutor acts as Public Prosecutor before the Investigating Chamber or the Criminal App…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Technical and accounting rules.

Article R441-7-4

…meaning of Title IV of Book III, constituted at the level of the insurance undertaking, Article R. 441-7-1 and the last paragraph of Article R. 441-21 do not apply. II. - For agreements entered into…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Nordic cross-country skiing and related activities.

Article A212-192-4

In the context of the free provision of services, when the Minister responsible for sport considers, after consulting the permanent cross-country skiing section of the training and employment commissi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I bis: Priority question on constitutionality

Article R*49-27

Refusal to refer the question relieves the court of jurisdiction of the plea in law based on the priority question of constitutionality. However, where this refusal was based exclusively on the findin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Secure surveillance and secure detention

Article R53-8-47

The decision to place the person under secure surveillance specifies the obligations to which the person is subject. When the measure is taken following judicial supervision or socio-judicial monitori…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Telehealth in the workplace

Article R4624-41-1

…IV of Part One of the Public Health Code, by the health professionals mentioned in I of Article L. 4624-1 of this Code, at their own initiative or that of the worker.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Unit dispensing of medicinal products in dispensing pharmacies

Article R5132-42-7

…provides the patient with a printed version of the package leaflet referred to in Article R. 5121-148. By way of derogation from the previous paragraph, he may, subject to the patient's agreement, in…

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