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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Establishment and purpose

Article D2352-3

In the event of the formation of the European Company by way of merger and in the cases referred to in Article L. 2352-4, the managers shall determine the number of additional seats and indicate those…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Establishment and purpose

Article D2372-3

In the cases referred to in Article L. 2352-4, the directors set the number of additional seats and indicate those allocated to companies with their registered office in France.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Composition and operation

Article R2524-3

The High Court of Arbitration is composed, in addition to its President, who is a Vice-President of the Conseil d'Etat or a Section President of the Conseil d'Etat in office or with honorary status: 1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Tasks and organisation.

Article R2112-3

The medico-social actions mentioned in 2° and 4° of article L. 2112-2 and concerning children under the age of six are intended in particular to ensure, through consultations and preventive examinatio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Budgetary and accounting provisions

Article D4425-31

…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 results from the last known census on…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Budgetary and accounting provisions

Article D4425-32

…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 borrowings and debts; 2° Present…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Budgetary and accounting provisions

Article D4425-33

…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 bodies not subject to such an obligation..

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Budgetary and accounting provisions

Article D4425-30

…ion; > 2° Actual operating revenue/population; > 3° Gross capital expenditure/population; > 4° Outstanding debt/population; 5° Global operating grant/population; > 6° Staff costs/real operating expend…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-3

…ion period is limited to the year to which this budget applies for the authorisation of expenditure and the issue of revenue orders.However, this period includes an additional period extending until t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Territorial Council

Article D6221-3

…rty that he has a period of one month to appeal to the Conseil d'Etat.The challenge is investigated and judged without costs by the Conseil d'Etat within a period of three months.

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