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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: Committee of elected representatives of the Ile-de-France region (R).

Article R2531-29

…ted. The chairman is elected until the renewal of the representatives of the groups of communes and mayors following the general renewal of the municipal councils. However, a new election is held in t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the administrative authority concerning undertakings subject to the obligation to draw up an employment safeguard plan.

Article L1233-57-6

The administration may, at any time during the procedure, make any observation or proposal to the employer concerning the conduct of the procedure or the social measures provided for in article L. 123…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-2

…rosecutor;4° A decision that the person is not criminally responsible on grounds of mental disorder;5° An indictment, where the investigating judge has ordered the decision to be entered in the ; in c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article L2336-5

…its member municipalities according to the tax integration coefficient defined in III of article L. 5211-29, then between the member communes, with the exception of those whose per capita financial po…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Search for an assignment.

Article R6152-50-2

…jobs, activities and responsibilities for which the practitioner is likely to be eligible or which may be offered to him/her in this context;3° Where applicable, the types of temporary assignments th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Combating mirror sites

Article L331-29

Any software publisher, any technical system manufacturer and any service operator may, in the event of refusal of access to information essential to interoperability, ask the Audiovisual and Digital…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 611-29

A videogram publisher may not submit, for each of the sessions of the commission for aid to videographic publishing, more than six applications for the granting of aid for the publishing of a specific…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 256

…° Civil servants and agents of the State, departments and communes, dismissed from their functions; 5° Dismissed ministerial officers and members of professional orders, definitively banned from pract…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for auditing accounts and management

Article R321-29

…an to the audited body, which has thirty days in which to submit its observations. The audited body may also request that its representatives be heard by the supervisory board within the same period.T…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Unavailability of sums, early release and liquidation.

Article R3332-29

Pursuant to the second paragraph of article L. 3332-16, the following events may exceptionally result in the rights built up in favour of participants being unlocked before expiry of the term of the b…

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