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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Procedures for issuing certificates

Article R3115-32

…acilitate the organisation and conduct of inspections required for the issue of a health inspection certificate or a health inspection exemption certificate for a ship. The persons or approved bodies…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Acts relating mainly to the family

Article A444-75

The establishment of alimony and indexed annuities (numbers 30 and 31 of table 5) gives rise to the collection of:1° A proportional fee:a) Either to the capital formed by ten times the annual benefit,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Composition and election (R)

Article R5211-32

…tmental commission for inter-communal cooperation are elected for the duration of their term of office on this commission. When a seat becomes vacant on the select committee, it is filled under the co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6241-22

No later than 31 December of the year preceding that in respect of which the apprenticeship tax is due, the representative of the State in the region shall publish the list, communicated by the Presid…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Application of international conventions and European Union law

Article L614-25

French nationals may claim the application for their benefit, in France, of the provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed at Paris on 20 March 1883,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-2

The public prosecutor draws up an annual report on the state of enforcement of sentences and the time taken to enforce them, which includes, in particular, a report drawn up by the departmental direct…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Common provisions.

Article L1545-4

…nch Polynesia, subject to the conclusion of an agreement to this effect with the local authority concerned and in compliance with its financial equilibrium. When it receives a request from the Congres…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Access to non-identifying data and the identity of the third-party donor

Article L2143-1

…Title IV of Book II of Part One of this Code, as well as the couple, the surviving member or the unmarried woman who has consented to one or more of her embryos being received by another couple or an…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Combating drug addiction.

Article L3842-1

…ench Polynesia, subject to the provisions of Article L. 3842-4 as amended by Law No. 2019-222 of 23 March 2019 on programming 2018-2022 and reform for the justice system.Articles L. 3422-1 and L. 3422…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R322-7

…ust contain, in addition to the information listed in articles 92 or 117 of decree no. 67-236 of 23 March 1967 on commercial companies, an indication of the amounts paid to the persons mentioned, as t…

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