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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Publicity of budgets and accounts

Article R4313-4

The audited accounts referred to in article L. 4313-3 are audited by a statutory auditor for bodies subject to the obligation to certify their accounts and by the chairman of the body in question, for…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Single section: Shareholdings in commercial companies other than those referred to in 8° of Article L. 4211-1

Article R4211-4

The total amount of shareholdings held by a region in the capital of commercial companies does not represent more than 5% of its actual operating revenue as recorded in its last available management a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Research and technological development

Article R4252-4

At the request of the committee, the heads of the State's regional services and the regional academic delegate for research and innovation or, in French Guyana, the regional delegate for research and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions and commitment of expenditure (R)

Article R4341-4

…regions and any other public authority or public establishment, as well as the products of the Corsican collectivity which are not assessed and liquidated by the State tax departments in execution of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Consultative commission on the evaluation of transfers of charges

Article R4425-4

…o give an opinion on: 1° The methods for evaluating the increases in charges resulting for the Corsican local authority from the transfers of competences; 2° The draft interministerial decree provided…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Education

Article R4424-4

The higher education and research map drawn up by the Assembly of Corsica under the conditions provided for in article L. 4424-3 defines the types of training provided by Corsican higher education est…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Consultation of voters

Article R5211-44

…d, to which are appended the observations made by the members of the deliberative assembly on the occasion of this deliberation, as well as an information notice on the purpose of the prior consultati…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Consultation of voters

Article R5211-42

When all the mayors of the communes that are members of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation or half of the members of the deliberative body of this establishment submit a request to…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Consultation of voters

Article R5211-46

…ach commune and the accompanying documents may not be altered. A summary report is drawn up in duplicate by the centralising office in the presence of the voters. The results are publicly recorded by…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: Exercise by a taxpayer of shares belonging to the public establishment for intermunicipal cooperation

Article R5211-49

In the case provided for in article L. 5211-58, the taxpayer is issued with a receipt for the detailed statement of case that it has sent to the administrative court. The prefect, to whom the matter h…

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