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Showing 18911900 of 25879 articles for Art. CE 7-5-1986 n° 39426

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VII: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Article LO6271-5

…lobal grant for school construction and equipment instituted by article L. 6264-5 and, for the balance, by the allocation of a global compensation grant entered in the State budget. The Finance Act sp…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VII: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Article LO6371-5

…lobal grant for school construction and equipment instituted by article L. 6364-5 and, for the balance, by the allocation of a global compensation grant entered in the State budget. The Finance Act sp…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L571-5

…L. 820-7 of the French Commercial Code apply to the statutory auditors of credit institutions, finance companies, investment firms, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and financial ho…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions on the valuation of prudential technical provisions

Article R351-7

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall use the technical information developed pursuant to Article 77e of Directive 2009/138/EC of 25 November 2009 as amended to calculate the best estimate refe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Allocation of the special profit-sharing reserve.

Article L3324-7

…6 and in the third paragraph of article L. 3324-2, to whom sums of less than the individual rights ceiling determined by decree have been paid in application of these articles. This ceiling may not b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Powers and funding of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee

Article R1432-75

…report on its financial management. Employees are informed of this report by posting it on the notice boards reserved for trade union communications. This report shall indicate, in particular 1° The…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R2311-7

Family planning or education centres carry out the following activities: 1° Medical consultations relating to fertility control ; 2° Dissemination of information and individual and group prevention ac…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Experimentation.

Article R5141-7

Medicinal products subject to clinical trials, on the one hand, and any reference medicinal products and placebos, on the other, are prepared in accordance with good manufacturing practice, defined in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Jurisdiction and procedure before courts of first instance

Article 712-8

…rticle 712-6 or the obligations resulting from these measures or from measures ordered by the sentence enforcement court pursuant to article 712-7 are taken by reasoned order of the sentence enforceme…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 730-3

When the length of the sentence served is at least equal to twice the length of the sentence still to be served, the situation of the convicted person serving one or more custodial sentences of a tota…

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