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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Intercommunal development and planning charter

Article L5223-1

The communes may draw up and approve inter-communal development and planning charters which define the medium-term prospects for their economic, social and cultural development, determine the correspo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Authorisation procedure

Article R1322-6

The Prefect of the Department in which the final exploitation site of the spring is located, after obtaining the opinion of the hydrogéologue agréé en matière d'hygiène publique, specially appointed f…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: User representation

Article R6132-11

The Constituent Agreement provides for the setting up of a Users' Committee or a Grouping Users' Commission, in accordance with the option chosen in their opinion by the majority of the Users' Commiss…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Common provisions.

Article D6431-36

When the Commission and the Committee meet in joint formation under the conditions provided for in Article L. 6431-15, the agenda is set by mutual agreement between the two chairmen. The joint committ…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article R113-14

For the purposes of applying article L. 561-8 of the Monetary and Financial Code to life insurance or capitalisation contracts, where the insurance undertaking is unable to meet the obligations set ou…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Approval of AIFM established in a third country

Article L532-34

I. - After receiving the application for authorisation referred to in Article L. 532-30, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall examine whether the AIFM's designation of France as the reference Mem…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 1: Formation of the company.

Article R210-4

The notice referred to in

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Obligations.

Article R228-67

The conditions under which notice of the general meeting of bondholders is brought to the attention of the bondholders may be set out in the contract of issue. In this case, the body responsible for c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article A37-5

The characteristics of the official statement of offence referred to in Article A. 37-1 are as follows: I.-On the front, on the left-hand side, the information provided for in I of

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Shareholdings in companies

Article L3231-6

All shareholdings in the capital of a commercial company or any other profit-making body whose purpose is not to operate departmental services or activities of general interest under conditions simila…

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