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Showing 62416250 of 26790 articles for Art. CE 5-6-2020 n° 423066

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General powers

Article R3551-6-3

The management posts of the Mayotte fire and rescue service are as follows:1° Director;2° Deputy Director;3° Head of group and head of administrative and financial affairs;4° Chief medical officer of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Retirement.

Article L1237-5

…the employee reaches the age set in 1° of article L. 351-8 of the Social Security Code. The same procedure applies each year until the employee's sixty-ninth birthday.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Cooperation and exchange of information

Article L311-59

…311-1 belonging to a cross-border group in which at least one of the entities belongs to the insurance sector and at least one of the entities belongs to the banking or investment services sector or t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 57-1

Officers of the judicial police or, under their responsibility, officers of the judicial police may, in the course of a search carried out under the conditions provided for in this code, access via a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Provisional profit and loss account for training schools and institutes.

Article R6145-56

…ors, administrative and technical staff assigned to the training schools and institutes ; b) Allowances for training periods and travel expenses as provided for in the provisions of this Code relating…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Security period

Article 720-5

…ne of the measures listed in Article 132-23 of the same code could not be granted to a person sentenced to life imprisonment, the sentence enforcement court, on the advice of a commission of five judg…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body for their own research programmes

Article R1243-51

…legal representative of the applicant organisation and a supporting file, entered using a teleservice. The letter describes the activity and certifies that the signatory has approved the supporting f…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions relating to elections.

Article D4233-5

…actising or from providing benefits to the insured persons, which has become final and is in the process of being enforced. II. - This list of pharmacist voters entered on the roll of the Association…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single section: Geographical indications protecting industrial and craft products

Article R721-5

…within two months of the end of the consultation. The applicant has a period of two months from receipt of these documents in which to submit comments. He may, if appropriate, within the same period…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Introduction of profit-sharing.

Article L3312-5

I.-Incentive agreements are concluded for a period of between one and five years, using one of the following methods: 1° By collective labour agreement ; 2° By agreement between the employer and the r…

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