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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-29

The documents mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of Article L. 4425-17 are made available online on the website of the Corsican regional authority, where such a website exists, under conditions gu…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R5151-7

I.-Information in accordance with the provisions of article 32 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and civil liberties appears on the online service mentioned…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-20

…f medical transport companies to requests for urgent medical transport mentioned in article R. 6312-17-1, in conjunction with the regional health agency, within the framework of the obligations set ou…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-22

…s the fight against slavery, human trafficking, procuring or social action on behalf of prostitutes may exercise the rights granted to civil parties in respect of offences punishable by the articles 2…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Search of the file and direct information to the Ministry of the Interior

Article R50-51

…d in accordance with article R. 50-54, as well as the officers mentioned in 5° of article 706-25-9, may search the file using a secure electronic communication system on the basis of the following cri…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Elections (R)

Article R1424-13

…the board of directors or his representative appointed from among the members of the board; c) Two mayors and two chairmen of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation appointed by the mem…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Duties of the coordinator.

Article R4532-14

…to: a) Delimit the site; b) Identify the areas of the sector in which the worksite is located that may present specific hazards for the workers of the companies called upon to intervene; c) Specify t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Cooperation between the armed forces health service and other health care providers

Article R6147-145

…ence Code, who work in the medical centres and mobile care teams of the armed forces health service may participate, if they have the other qualifications required: a) In permanent outpatient care, un…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Penalties

Article L824-3

…the financial penalty previously imposed became final, the amount of the financial penalty imposed may not exceed twice the amounts mentioned in a, b, c and d.The sums shall be paid to the Treasury.I…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions specific to credit institutions, investment firms, finance companies, electronic money institutions and payment institutions

Article L784-4

…llege of resolution authorities are not applicable;4° References to Regulations (EU) No 593/2008 of 17 June 2008, No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 and No…

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