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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Accounting and financial provisions

Article D1611-32-6

…ce with the procedures defined for each service by the contract or the regulations applicable to it;2° The repayment of overpayments;3° The restitution of sums wrongly collected.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Decision

Article R2333-120-60

The Commission's decisions are notified to all the parties involved on the same day at their real addresses, by any means that can be used to prove receipt by the addressees. Where the decision is dra…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Decision

Article R2333-120-61

The notification of the decision states that a copy of the decision must be attached to the appeal in cassation to the Conseil d'Etat and that this appeal may only be lodged through a lawyer at the Co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Decision

Article R2333-120-62

Where the chairman of the commission finds that the minute of a decision is vitiated by a material error or omission that is not likely to have had an influence on the judgment of the case, he may, by…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Machinery

Article R4311-4-6

A removable mechanical transmission device is a removable component designed to transmit power between a self-propelled machine or a tractor and another machine by connecting them to the first fixed b…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Guardianship arrangements.

Article R712-6-1

…suspends the notification, publicity and filing of the texts concerned, provided for in articles L. 2231-5 et seq. of the Labour Code.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: The Board of Directors and General Management

Article L22-10-6

…e admitted to trading on a regulated market, the number of directors elected pursuant to article L. 225-27 may not be more than five nor exceed one-third of the number of other directors. Any appointm…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Equalisation allowance.

Article L3334-6-1

…artments and the per capita financial potential of the department, as defined in article L. 3334-6 ;2° The ratio between the proportion of total recipients of housing benefit, as defined in Article L.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of asset freezing orders issued by foreign authorities

Article 695-9-11

The freezing order and the certificate issued by the judicial authority of the issuing State shall be transmitted, in accordance with the procedures laid down in article 695-9-6, to the territorially…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions for the importation of plasma pastes and labile blood products intended for the preparation of health products.

Article D1221-67-1

By way of derogation from the provisions of the first paragraph of article D. 1221-58, when the Armed Forces Blood Transfusion Centre imports labile blood products with a view to processing them for f…

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