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Showing 43614370 of 34507 articles for Art. 7 May 1998

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Composition.

Article R6152-322-7

…ed by the administration at its own expense. Only electoral material supplied by the administration may be used. Each ballot paper is placed in a double envelope. The inner envelope must bear no words…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Supervision on a consolidated basis by a competent authority of another Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L613-21-7

…he authority mentioned in the first paragraph, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may refer the matter to the European Banking Authority, pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No…

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

Article R441-7-1

…rtaking reallocates to the special technical reversal provision referred to in 3° of Article R. 441-7, set up in respect of this agreement, part of the assets contributed to represent the commitments…

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

Article 706-53-14

The situation of the persons mentioned in Article 706-53-13 is examined, at least one year before the date set for their release, by the multidisciplinary committee on security measures provided for i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 10: Special provisions for forestry investment groups

Article R214-176-7

…arate management units at least twenty kilometres apart. The share of one of these management units may not exceed 60% of the total surface area of the group's forest holdings. If these conditions are…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-5

…hey have been informed of the measures and obligations mentioned in the second paragraph of article 706-53-6, and then every year; 2° To declare any changes of address, within fifteen days of this cha…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Registration in the file

Article R53-8-7

…son does not appear in the national register of identification of natural persons, this information may not, however, constitute a search criterion ;-successive addresses of the person's domicile and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Hospital duties for odontology students.

Article D6153-72-1

…e training and research unit in which the student is registered and his or her home. This allowance may not be combined with any scheme for the total or partial reimbursement of transport costs paid d…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Compensation grants

Article L3334-7-1

…qual in 2004, for each department, to the amount due in respect of 2003 pursuant to article L. 3334-7-1 as it stood prior to the Finance Act for 2004 (no. 2003-1311 of 30 December 2003), increased by…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L212-3-7

…t fifty years of the seventy-year period provided for in 2° of I of article L. 211-4. The performer may not waive this right. However, a phonogram producer who employs fewer than ten people and whose…

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