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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Transformation and merger.

Article L5211-41-2

…ion of the trade union committee and the municipal councils of the member municipalities in accordance with the conditions of qualified majority required for the creation of the public inter-municipal…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Transformation and merger.

Article L5211-41-1

…ties whose inclusion in the community perimeter is likely to ensure the spatial and economic coherence as well as the financial and social solidarity that are necessary for the development of a conurb…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Transformation and merger.

Article L5211-41

…If no decision is taken within this period, the decision is deemed to be favourable. Without prejudice to the provisions of article L. 5217-1, the transformation is then pronounced by decree of the St…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Transformation and merger.

Article L5211-41-3

…e part of the same department, or by joint order of the State representatives in the departments concerned in the opposite case:1° Either within two months of the first deliberation transmitted, on th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Extreme emergency work.

Article L4532-17

In the case of extremely urgent work whose immediate execution is necessary to prevent serious and imminent accidents or to organise rescue measures, the following obligations do not apply: 1° Submiss…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Temporary employment agencies

Article L6331-69

…ment concluded between the employees' trade unions and the employers' professional organisations concerned, which determines the terms of use, taking into account in particular the needs of priority g…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Withdrawal of communes

Article L5216-11

…icle L. 5211-19, a commune may be authorised, by the State representative in the department after receiving the opinion of the departmental commission for inter-communal cooperation meeting in the for…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 7: Withdrawal of communes

Article L5842-30-1

…the right-hand column of the same table. APPLICABLE PROVISIONS AS PROVIDED FOR IN L. 5216-11 la loi n° 2019-1461 du 27 décembre 2019 .

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 7: Transformation and merger.

Article L5842-10

…to the same department and by joint order of the representatives of the State in the departments concerned in the opposite case" are replaced by the words: "of the High Commissioner of the Republic".I…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Payment Security Observatory

Article R142-25

The members of the Observatory and those who contribute to its work are bound by professional secrecy under the conditions set out in article 226-13 of the French Criminal Code.

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