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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Transmission of documents

Article D6323-21-2

…joint inter-professional committees. The documents provided for in articles R. 6332-30 and R. 6332-31 are also sent to the Regional Prefect before 31 May of the calendar year in question.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisional prices

Article R2112-17

The State, its public establishments other than those of an industrial and commercial nature, local authorities, their public establishments and their groupings may only conclude a contract at provisi…

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

Article L532-40

…IFM may submit a request to the AMF to change its reference Member State.III. - If the Autorité des marchés financiers disagrees with the AIFM's designation of its new Member State of reference pursua…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-27

I.- Regular, acceptable and appropriate tenders, which have not been rejected pursuant to article R. 4122-4-26, are ranked in descending order by applying the award criteria. II - The contract is awar…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article A761-3

The manager of a market of national interest sends the following activity and financial reports to the municipalities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation on whose territory the m…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exceptional aid to programming groups and agreements

Article 919-69

…cartels created before 1 January 2017, by taking into account the period between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2019;b) For groupings and cartels created between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017, b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation of the company.

Article R6223-69

…s shares under the conditions provided for by 1° or 2° of B of I of article 5 of law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990, he loses the rights attached to his status as a member practising within the compa…

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

Article L532-39

…gal representative shall be established in the new Member State of reference.II. - The Autorité des marchés financiers shall make an assessment of the designation of the AIFM's reference Member State…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-5

The Director General of the Agence nationale de la sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail may impose financial penalties on natural or legal persons producing or market…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Notification to economic operators of a non-conformity

Article R4314-10

…equipment and shall, where appropriate, send it the verification reports referred to in Article R. 4314-5. It shall set a deadline for the operator to submit its observations and set out any correctiv…

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