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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Compensation for the consequences of health risks

Article L1526-2

…42-5, L. 1142-6, L. 1142-7, L. 1142-8, with the exception of its first and last paragraphs, L. 1142-9 to L. 1142-12 and L. 1142-14 to L. 1143-1 are applicable to Wallis and Futuna, subject to the adap…

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

Article L2121-26

…ecentralised departments of the State, takes place under the conditions laid down by Article L. 311-9 of the code des relations entre le public et l'administration.The provisions of this article apply…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Documents required for the declaration of activity by nationals of a Member State of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area wishing to establish themselves in France

Article A212-182-1

…the declarant has not been convicted of a crime or one of the offences mentioned in article L. 212-9 by requesting an extract from the criminal record (bulletin no. 2) dated less than three months fr…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Availability of consultation documents

Article R3122-11

By way of derogation from article R. 3122-9, when, in duly justified circumstances, for reasons of exceptional security, technical reasons or because of the particularly sensitive nature of commercial…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article L645-10

…assigned judge refers the case back to the court in order to apply the provisions of article L. 645-9 or to order the closure of the professional recovery procedure, without there being any need for l…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Tariff of charges

Article R213-1

The tariffs relating to the fees mentioned in 9° of Article R. 92 corresponding to the supply of data retained pursuant to IIa and III of article L. 34-1 of the French Post and Electronic Communicatio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions.

Article L8271-5-2

…ocuments that may be useful to the latter in carrying out the tasks provided for in Article L. 6323-9 entrusted to this body. Employees of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations may pass on to the ins…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Protection in the event of dismissal

Article R2411-1

…ttee of a health, social and medico-social establishment mentioned in article 2 of law no. 86-33 of 9th January 1986 on statutory provisions relating to the hospital civil service. For the application…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Statutory audit, other engagements and services performed by statutory auditors

Article R823-21-3

…lic interest entity shall, at the request of the specialised committee mentioned in article L. 823-19 or the body performing the functions of this committee, the findings and conclusions of the Haut c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Organisation

Article D4422-30-3

…he standing committee provided for in the third paragraph of I of the article 7 of law no. 85-30 of 9 January 1985 on the development and protection of mountain areas, duly convened by its chairman. I…

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