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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Documents required for the declaration of activity by nationals of a Member State of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area wishing to establish themselves in France

Article A212-182-1

…f the département to ensure that the declarant has not been convicted of a crime or one of the offences mentioned in article L. 212-9 by requesting an extract from the criminal record (bulletin no. 2)…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Availability of consultation documents

Article R3122-11

By way of derogation from article R. 3122-9, when, in duly justified circumstances, for reasons of exceptional security, technical reasons or because of the particularly sensitive nature of commercial…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article L645-10

…to apply the provisions of article L. 645-9 or to order the closure of the professional recovery procedure, without there being any need for liquidation. An appeal may be lodged against the closure ru…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Charges levied by electronic communications operators

Article R213-1

…h Post and Electronic Communications Code are set by an order of the Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry and the Minister for Justice. This order distinguishes the applicable tariffs accord…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions.

Article L8271-5-2

The control officers referred to in 1° of Article L. 8271-1-2 may pass on to the officers of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations any information and documents that may be useful to the latter in ca…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Protection in the event of dismissal

Article R2411-1

…2 of law no. 86-33 of 9th January 1986 on statutory provisions relating to the hospital civil service. For the application of these provisions to non-tenured employees, the joint consultative committ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Terms of engagement and services of the statutory auditor

Article R823-21-3

…du commissariat aux comptes following the audits carried out pursuant to article L. 821-9 which concern: 1° Assessing the design of the internal quality control system; 2° Assessing the content of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4a: The Chamber of Territories

Article D4422-30-3

…the Corsican Massif Committee referred to in the fifth paragraph of Article L. 4421-3 and his replacement are appointed by the standing committee provided for in the third paragraph of I of the artic…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of the budget

Article D6262-2

…by the representative of the State, the period within which it may formulate proposals runs from receipt at the registry of all the documents required to be produced, depending on the case, by articl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of the budget

Article D6362-2

…he representative of the State, the period within which it may formulate proposals shall run from receipt at the registry of all the documents required to be produced, depending on the case, by articl…

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