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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Financial and accounting system

Article R211-18-1

…erences, seminars, symposia and events that it organises, as well as the services that it provides; 4° Income from research, development and application work corresponding to the contracts it executes…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Inter-regional centres specialising in environmental and public health offences

Article 706-2-2

Articles 706-80 to 706-87 and 706-95 to 706-103 are applicable to the investigation, prosecution, trial and judgment: 1° Of the offences provided for in articles L. 5421-2, L. 5421-13, L. 5426-1, L. 5…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Departmental maternal and child protection service.

Article L2112-3-1

For the application of article L. 2111-2, the departmental services in charge of maternal and child protection may, in the event of a presumption that the childminder is taking in more children than a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Criminal provisions.

Article L2431-1

Articles L. 2222-2, L. 2222-4, L. 2223-1 and L. 2223-2 are applicable in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories. For their application in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories : 1° Le 3…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Vaccinations.

Article L3111-1

Vaccination policy is drawn up by the Minister of Health, who lays down the conditions for immunisation, sets out the necessary recommendations and publishes the vaccination calendar after obtaining t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions

Article L4223-2

…he procedures set out in article 131-38 of the same code, as well as the penalties set out in 2° to 4° of article 433-25 of the same code. Failure to comply with the provisions of article L. 4221-14 i…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Payment of compensation.

Article R172-6

…f surrender or, if a time limit has been set for the action, the date of expiry of that time limit; 4° Where the insured's action is based on general average contribution or salvage remuneration, from…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Provisions relating to the investigation of claims for compensation.

Article R424-13

…e damage; 3° Scientific knowledge relating to these risks at the time the spraying was carried out; 4° The existence on the insurance market of products capable of covering the damage for which compen…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Advisory Committee

Article 232-34

…of local and regional authorities; 3° A representative of the minister responsible for the budget; 4° A representative of the minister responsible for local and regional authorities; 5° A representat…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Elements of private project management for infrastructure works

Article R2431-30

…up, on the basis of the execution plans, a detailed cost estimate for each of the public contracts;4° Drawing up the provisional timetable for the execution of the works for each of the public contra…

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