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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Organisation and meetings

Article L5912-3

The chairman alone is responsible for policing the congress of departmental and regional elected representatives and mayors.He may have any individual disturbing the peace expelled from the auditorium…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Special regulations concerning certain assets of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-15

…artnerships, unless exemptions were granted prior to the entry into force of decree no. 90-981 of 5 November 1990. The assets of these companies may only consist of built buildings or land located in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Responsibilities

Article R1233-25-3

…e powers provided for in Articles 57 to 59, 61 to 71, 73 and 74 of the above-mentioned Decree of 20 November 2020.It also exercises the powers of the social and economic committee provided for in the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Total or partial withdrawal of parental authority and withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority

Article 378

Parental authority or the exercise of parental authority may be totally withdrawn by an express decision of the criminal judgment from fathers and mothers who are convicted, either as perpetrators, co…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for issuing the European arrest warrant.

Article 695-17

Where the Public Prosecutor's Office has been informed of the arrest of the requested person, it shall without delay send the Minister for Justice a copy of the arrest warrant transmitted to the judic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for issuing the European arrest warrant.

Article 695-16

The Public Prosecutor's Office at the investigating, trial or enforcement court that has issued an arrest warrant shall execute it in the form of a European arrest warrant either at the request of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for issuing the European arrest warrant.

Article 695-17-1

If the public prosecutor is informed by the judicial authority of the executing Member State of a request from the arrested person for the appointment of a lawyer on national territory, he shall provi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the conditions of transmission of samples to medical biology laboratories established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article D6221-36

Applications for authorisation may only be examined if they are accompanied by a complete file. The application is deemed to be complete if, within one month of receipt, the Minister for Health has no…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the conditions of transmission of samples to medical biology laboratories established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article D6221-32

The head of the medical biology laboratory established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area shall inform the Minister responsible for h…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the conditions of transmission of samples to medical biology laboratories established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article D6221-45

…paragraph of Article L. 6211-2-1 as it stood prior to the entry into force of Order no. 2010-49 of 13 January 2010 as amended relating to medical biology, or that have obtained the administrative aut…

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