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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Departmental and territorial fire and rescue services

Article R1424-1-1

The departmental and territorial fire and rescue services are classified in descending order into three categories A, B and C, on the basis of population as defined in article L. 3334-2.This classific…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXXIII: Procedure applicable in the event of a collective accident

Article D47-38

By application of the provisions of Article 706-176, the judicial courts designated in the table below have jurisdiction to hear, in the districts defined in that table, the offences referred to in th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Supervision on a consolidated basis by a competent authority of another Member State of the European Union or another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R613-6

For the purposes of Article L. 613-21-4, the decision taken by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, either individually or on a sub-consolidated basis, shall be duly reasoned. It shal…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Sociétés coopératives ouvrières de production, agricultural cooperatives.

Article R3323-9

In sociétés coopératives de production, the special reserve for employee profit-sharing is calculated on the following basis: 1° The profit is deemed to be equal, for each financial year, to the net m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3 : Conditions for accreditation of practitioners performing pre-implantation diagnosis

Article R2131-38

Renewal of a practitioner's accreditation is issued by the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine. Renewal is subject to an assessment of the practitioner's activity, in accordance with crit…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rules applicable to authorised establishments and organisations

Article R4211-49

Advanced therapy medicinal products prepared on an ad hoc basis are distributed, under the responsibility of the person in charge referred to in article R. 4211-37 or, where applicable, the person in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Companies or organisations exploiting a medicinal product or a product mentioned in Article R. 5121-150

Article R5121-167

Any company or organisation exploiting a medicinal product or a product mentioned in Article R. 5121-150 implements procedures to obtain accurate and verifiable information for the scientific evaluati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Care of prisoners

Article R6111-35

The following costs are borne by the State: 1° Expenses relating to the prevention and health education initiatives mentioned in 1° of article L. 381-30-6 of the Social Security Code; 2° The construct…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 6: Personal interview

Article L531-15

The asylum seeker may attend the personal interview accompanied either by a lawyer or a representative of a human rights association, an association defending the rights of foreign nationals or asylum…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Formation of the jury

Article 261

In each commune, the mayor, with a view to drawing up the preparatory list for the annual list, publicly draws by lot from the electoral roll a number of names three times the number set by the prefec…

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