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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operation

Article R6143-12

The term of office of Supervisory Board members is five years. The term of office of the members of the Supervisory Board ends at the same time as the term of office or functions in respect of which t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operation

Article R6143-15

The members of the Supervisory Board receive minutes of the meeting within fifteen days of each meeting.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-11

The joint fund helps to finance the following activities, which constitute missions of general interest for the employees' trade union organisations and the professional employers' organisations conce…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Inspection.

Article L5146-1

I.-Enforcement of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products, of this Title, and of the provisions adopted…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts relating to liquefied petroleum gas

Article L224-18

The contracts mentioned in article L. 224-17 are in writing, with the consumer only being bound by his signature. These contracts must specify at least the following information in a clear, detailed a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3 : Transcription of a marriage celebrated abroad by a foreign authority

Article 171-8

When the formalities provided for in Article 171-2 have been complied with and the marriage has been celebrated in the forms customary in the country, it shall be entered in the civil status registers…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Admission to psychiatric care by decision of the State representative.

Article L3213-1

I.-The representative of the State in the département issues an order, in the light of a detailed medical certificate that cannot come from a psychiatrist practising in the host establishment, for the…

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

Article 1693 quater

I.-Les redevables de la taxe prévue à l'article 299 other than those subject to the simplified actual taxation scheme provided for in article 302 septies A or allowed to file their returns by calendar…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation to set up within this perimeter

Article A761-14

The second part of the application to the Prefect referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 761-12-1 includes all the information needed to examine the application, namely: 1° An indicative pla…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Serial analysis files

Article 230-18

In application of Article 31 of the aforementioned Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, a decree in the Council of State, issued after consultation with the National Commission for Information Technology…

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