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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 11: Charges for the transport and distribution of electricity and gas and the transport of hydrocarbons and chemicals by pipeline

Article L2333-86

The fees referred to in article L. 2333-84 are subject to the five-year statute of limitations which begins to run from the date on which they became due. The four-year limitation period instituted by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: General obligation to provide information relating to the performance of duties

Article R6152-830

The provisions of this sub-section apply to staff governed by the provisions of sections 1 to 9 of this chapter.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: General obligation to provide information relating to the performance of duties

Article R6152-831

…rector of the institution shall provide the information provided for inarticle 2 of decree no. 2023-845 of 30 August 2023 concerning the communication to public officials of essential information and…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes III

Article Annexe III-3 (art. R322-27)

…breastplates, back shells, coccyx protectors, shells, harnesses and clothing with parts providing local protection. 6. Upper limb protection items such as shoulder pads, elbow pads, wrist guards, glov…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Advertising aimed at the health professions

Article R5122-11

The verbal presentation of a medicinal product is made by a person mentioned in Article L. 5122-11 and is accompanied by the hand-delivery by that person to the healthcare professional of: 1° The summ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Special provisions for companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market and certain of their subsidiaries.

Article R232-11

…ry general meeting of shareholders: 1° The approved annual financial statements, bearing the certificate of the statutory auditors; 2° The decision to allocate the results; 3° The consolidated financi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article L71-111-5

…shall be voted by chapter and, if the Assembly of French Guiana so decides, by article.In these two cases, the Assembly of French Guiana may, however, specify that certain appropriations are specialis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 800

…laim is time-barred. The decision is notified to the claimant in the manner set out in article R. 228. The stakeholder may lodge an appeal against the decision establishing the foreclosure within the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-11

…the compassionate prescribing framework or any information relating to this framework to the healthcare professionals concerned must not constitute advertising within the meaning of Article L. 5122-1…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Companies with variable capital

Article 825

The net increase in the capital of an open-ended company, recorded at the end of a financial year, is recorded free of charge; the words "free of charge" are entered in the minutes of the general meet…

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