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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation

Article R4422-25

…Corsican Economic, Social, Environmental and Cultural Council, working groups common to both bodies may be set up..

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 2: Ordinary procedure

Article R121-22

In the event of an appeal, an application may be made to the First President of the Court of Appeal for a stay of execution of decisions taken by the enforcement judge. The application is made by mean…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Payment of tax

Article 223 N

1. Each company in the group is required to pay the advance payments provided for in Article 1668 for the twelve-month period starting from the beginning of the financial year in respect of which this…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: National identification system and register of companies and their establishments.

Article R123-226

…tion 4 of this chapter result in changes to the identification information listed in article R. 123-222, this information is sent to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies via the s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Obligations arising from marriage

Article 210

…who must provide maintenance justifies that he cannot pay the maintenance, the family affairs judge may, with full knowledge of the facts, order that he receive in his home, feed and maintain the pers…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Unused medicinal products for human use.

Article R4211-25

Producers or their eco-organisation may call upon wholesaler-distributors to supply pharmacies with the receptacles mentioned in article R. 4211-24, and to collect and transport these receptacles to t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 214

…their respective faculties. If one of the spouses does not fulfil his or her obligations, he or she may be forced to do so by the other in the forms provided for in the Code of Civil Procedure.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 214

…ber shall order the indictment before the assize court or before the departmental criminal court.It may also refer related offences to the competent criminal court.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rates for services

Article R6145-25

No payment of fees may be claimed from hospitalised patients, in addition to the tariff for the service or stay, except for procedures carried out as part of the private practice of full-time hospital…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Status of members, agents and employees of the agency

Article R232-22

…rs of the Board and Sanctions Committee are reimbursed under the conditions laid down by Decree No. 2006-781 of 3 July 2006 setting the conditions and procedures for payment of expenses incurred by th…

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