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

Article D3312-12

A. - The report provided for in Article L. 3312-1 includes the following information: 1° The budgetary guidelines envisaged by the department relating to projected changes in expenditure and revenue,…

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

Article D4312-10

A. - The report provided for in Article L. 4312-1 includes the following information: 1° The budgetary guidelines envisaged by the region relating to projected changes in expenditure and revenue, both…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Investigation of the request for expert appraisal

Article R7343-100

The purpose of the expert appraisal, to which one or more workers' organisations recognised as representative or one or more professional organisations of platforms recognised as representative may ha…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: The information document

Article R8252-2

The document given to the foreign employee not authorised to work includes the following information: 1° In all cases : a) Entitlement to the wages and allowances mentioned in 1° and 2° of article L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Tasks and procedures for designating reference medical biology laboratories

Article D6211-18

Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles L. 1413-3 and L. 1413-8, a reference medical biology laboratory for specific medical biology tests or for specific pathologies, within the meaning of pa…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Technical and accounting rules.

Article R441-7-1

I. - When, pursuant to the last paragraph of Article R. 441-21, the commitments of the insurance undertaking under an agreement are no longer represented in at least an equivalent manner by the assets…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Deliberations of the Assize Court

Article 362

…affirmative answer on guilt, the president shall read out to the jurors the provisions of articles 130-1,132-1and 132-18 of the Penal Code; if the provisions of the first two paragraphs of Article 13…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 302 bis ZA

…additional tax to the tax on commercial surfaces provided for by the article 3 of law no. 72-657 of 13 July 1972 instituting measures in favour of certain categories of elderly shopkeepers and craftsm…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Education

Article L4424-1

…nal plan contract for the development of training and vocational guidance defined in article L. 214-13 of the Education Code, and after agreement from the commune in which the establishment is located…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Multiannual agreements on objectives and resources

Article L6114-1

…e a single contract with several public health institutions in the case provided for in article L. 6132-5-1 or with several private health institutions belonging to the same legal entity.Contracts are…

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