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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees - Representation on outside bodies.

Article LO6321-26

The Territorial Council, when one sixth of its members so request, shall deliberate on the creation of a mission of information and evaluation tasked with gathering information on a matter of interest…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees - Representation on outside bodies.

Article LO6431-25

The Territorial Council, when one sixth of its members so request, shall deliberate on the creation of a mission of information and evaluation tasked with gathering information on a matter of interest…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees and representation on outside bodies

Article L7122-24

The Assembly of French Guyana, when one fifth of its members so request, shall deliberate on the creation of a mission of information and assessment responsible for gathering information on a matter o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees and representation in outside bodies

Article L7222-24

The Assembly of Martinique, when one fifth of its members so request, shall deliberate on the creation of a mission of information and evaluation responsible for gathering information on a matter of l…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VIII: Specific procedures

Article 899

Article 706-9 shall read as follows: "Art. 706-9.-The President shall take into account in the amount of the sums awarded to the victim as compensation for his loss :benefits listed in II of Article 1…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: The automated national registry of judicial procedures and the automated processing system known as "Cassiopée".

Article R15-33-66-9

The II of Article 3 of the Act of 6 January 1978 susvisée, of all or part of the information and personal data recorded in the processing:- lawyers;- persons involved in the proceedings within the mea…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-17

The magistrate mentioned in Article R. 53-16 and, at his request, the members of the committee provided for in the same article shall have permanent access to the file and to the place where it is loc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking, payment services and electronic money

Article L754-1

…2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 311-7 Order no. 2017-1433 of 4 October 2017 L. 311-8 Ordinance no. 2021-1652 of 15 December 2021 L. 311-9 to L. 311-13Order no. 2017-1433 of 4 October 2017

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-18

The list of bathing waters, as resulting from the census procedure provided for in article D. 1332-16 , as well as any change to this list compared to the previous year, accompanied by the reasons, th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Mandate

Article R722-7

During the week following that of the election of the newly elected judges, the public prosecutor invites the judges of the commercial court established at the seat of the court of appeal who have not…

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