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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Access to personal health information.

Article R1111-5

When, in the circumstances provided for in the fourth paragraph of article L. 1111-7, the holder of the information gathered in the context of involuntary hospitalisation or hospitalisation at the req…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tasks

Article D1123-27

…ction Committees for their information and analyses them with a view to drawing up recommendations; 7° Drawing up evaluation guidelines for the Committees for the Protection of Individuals and organis…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 3: Declarations of amending or supplementary registration.

Article R123-49-1

…er the declarations, particulars and documents referred to in the sixth paragraph of Article L. 526-7, within one clear working day of receipt of the application. The previously competent registrar in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Procedure.

Article R145-30

…factual elements enabling the criteria defined, as the case may be, in articles R. 145-3 to R. 145-7, L. 145-34, R. 145-9, R. 145-10 or R. 145-11, as the case may be, and on the additional questions…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Subscription, purchase or pledge by companies of their own shares.

Article R225-160

…the buy or sell order or the name of the credit or financial institution that transmitted the order;7° Where applicable, the name of the person who acted in his or her own name but on behalf of the co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Partial contribution of assets

Article R236-19

I.-Where the first paragraph of Article L. 236-27 is applied, the draft partial asset contribution agreement shall contain the information referred to in Article R. 236-1, with the exception of the in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 9: Informing and involving residents

Article L5842-12

…vided for in II and III. APPLICABLE PROVISIONS AS PROVIDED FOR IN L. 5211-46 Order no. 2021-1310 of 7 October 2021 L. 5211-49 law no. 2022-217 of 21 February 2022 L. 5211-49-1 law no. 2002-276 of 27 F…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article L6471-3

…e of the capital, or for the benefit of which it has guaranteed a loan or paid a grant in excess of 75,000 euros or representing more than half of the budget of the said organisation; 5° A table showi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Representation of professional platform organisations

Article L7343-23

…lish their representativeness pursuant to this section, the organisations referred to in Article L. 7343-21 shall submit their applications to the Autorité des relations sociales des plateformes d'emp…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions.

Article L8271-1-2

The competent control officers pursuant to Article L. 8271-1 are :1° The labour inspection officers mentioned in Article L. 8112-1;2° Officers and agents of the judicial police ;3° Tax and customs off…

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