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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D71-111-2

The budget implementation period is limited to the same year to which that budget applies for the authorisation of expenditure and the issue of revenue vouchers.However, this period includes an additi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D71-114-2

…p by the President of the local authority, showing expenditure which, having been committed before 31 December of the previous year, has not been mandated before the end of the financial year. This st…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-15

…authorisation of a credit institution at the request of the institution.Pursuant to Articles 4 and 14 of Council Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 of 15 October 2013, such withdrawal may also be decided b…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Formation of a European holding company.

Article R229-15

…these companies are not all in registered form.This notice shall include the following information:1° The name of the promoting company followed, where applicable, by its acronym, the address of its…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Multi-annual protocol referred to in I of Article L. 6147-11

Article R6147-141

…Minister for Defence and a representative of the Minister for Health. The committee is made up of: 1° Six representatives of the Minister for Defence, including the central director of the armed forc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Multi-annual protocol referred to in I of Article L. 6147-11

Article R6147-140

I.-The protocol referred to in I of article L. 6147-11 is implemented for a period of five years and tacitly renewed for the same period, unless an amendment is concluded no later than six months befo…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Interim measures

Article 1118

If a new fact arises, the judge may, until the court relinquishes jurisdiction, cancel, modify or supplement the provisional measures he has prescribed.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: The adoption procedure

Article 1175

Where appropriate, the court shall rule, in the same form, on the change of the adopted person's forenames and, in the case of simple adoption, on the adopted person's name.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Intermediary associations.

Article L5132-14

…association is carried out under the conditions of this sub-section, the following shall not apply: 1° Sanctions relating to temporary work, as provided for in articles L. 1255-1 to L. 1255-12; 2° San…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-3-11

The suspension provided for in 2° of I of article L. 232-23 shall take effect on the date of the decision of the Sanction Commission or of the agreement provided for in article L. 232-21, except where…

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