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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Simplified group action procedure

Article R623-12

The individual consumer information measures referred to in article L. 623-15 to which the professional must proceed must include, in addition to any particulars prescribed by the judgment: 1° A repro…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Composition and operation of the Local Finance Committee of French Polynesia.

Article R2573-36

…subdivision, the representatives of the communes are elected by an electoral college made up of the mayors and deputy mayors and, where applicable, the deputy mayors mentioned in articles L. 2113-15 a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-28

For the application of article L. 4425-15, when the investment section of the budget shows a surplus, the following may be taken back into the operating section: -the proceeds from the sale of a fixed…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with healthcare service providers

Article L1435-3

…cludes the multiannual contracts for objectives and resources provided for in Article L. 6114-1. It may, with the participation of local and regional authorities, enter into the multi-year contracts f…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IX: The European Company

Article L229-10

Any European Company may convert into a public limited company if, at the time of the conversion, it has been registered for more than two years and has had the balance sheet for its first two financi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-4

…ysical Protection of Nuclear Material, opened for signature in Vienna and New York on 3 March 1980, may be prosecuted and tried under the conditions laid down in Article 689-1 any person guilty of any…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-17

…he plan referred to in the previous paragraph, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may require it to revert to the standard formula for calculating its Solvency Capital Requirement, i…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-12

…22, 311-18, 311-19 and 411-9, the intensity of public aid granted for the production of these works may be increased to 100% of the final production cost, including the additional cost generated by th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single section: Procedure

Article R618-2

…52 and R. 613-58 shall be made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.Registered mail may be replaced by delivery of the letter to the addressee against a receipt, on the premises of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions for authorising laboratories

Article R1131-14

…cle L. 6122-2.The authorisation is issued by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency. It may be limited to some of the categories of analyses mentioned in the previous paragraph.The authori…

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