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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article R15-28

Officers or judicial police officers belonging to the departments or units designated in articles R. 15-29 to R. 15-33 are competent, within the limits defined by these articles, to carry out their du…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: DEPARTMENTS OF HAUTS-DE-SEINE, SEINE-SAINT-DENIS AND VAL-DE-MARNE

Article R3421-1

The revenue and expenditure of shared services of local interest, entered in the budget of the city of Paris (special budget of the police prefecture), are subject, to a contribution from the départem…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Transfers of property, rights and obligations

Article R5215-3

…15-29 : - An operation is considered to be a coherent whole of such a nature as to be put into service without any additions; - An operation is considered to have been decided upon when the preliminar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmaceutical products.

Article L5521-6

For its application in Wallis and Futuna, Article L. 5124-13 is replaced by the following provisions:Art. L. 5124-13 -The import of medicinal products for human use and the import and export of gene t…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO THE AUTHORITIES GOVERNED BY ARTICLE 73 OF THE CONSTITUTION AND TO SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON

Article D591-15

Articles D. 521-12, D. 531-1, D.551-16 to D. 551-20, D. 551-22, D. 553-1 to D. 553-28, D. 554-1, D. 561-12 to D 561-14 and D. 581-7 are not applicable to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-23

Subject to the provisions of section 19 of the law of 29 November 1966 and those of this sub-section imposing special majority conditions, decisions are taken by a majority of the votes held by the me…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: REGISTRATION OF THE ASYLUM APPLICATION

Article R521-1

Without prejudice to the second paragraph of article 11-1 of decree no. 2004-374 of 29 April 2004 on the powers of the prefects and the organisation and action of the State services in the regions and…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Creation of accounts.

Article R123-199-1

…y the international accounting standards adopted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2238/2004 of 29 December 2004, in particular the part of its Annex IAS 24 entitled "Purpose of related party disclosur…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to all companies

Article R822-60

The insurance obligation provided for in article R. 822-36 is applicable to sociétés de commissaires aux comptes, without prejudice to the obligation of partners or shareholders to take out insurance…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2 - Financing and management of the individual training entitlement of local elected representatives

Article D1621-15

…this code or article L. 121-37 of the New Caledonian Municipalities Code, a training course is financed both by the fund for the individual right to training of local elected representatives and by th…

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