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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART SIX

Article Annexe 61-4

COMPOSITION OF THE GROUPS OF THE OPERATING SECTION OF THE GENERAL BUDGET REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE D. 6145-6.ExpenditureGROUP 1Operating expenses relating to personnel61681: Sickness, maternity and accid…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Powers of the Regional Council

Article L4433-4-6

The regional cooperation funds set up respectively for Guadeloupe, La Réunion and Mayotte are funded by State appropriations and may receive allocations from the département, the region, any other pub…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Commencement of employment

Article R743-139-11

…in one month of his appointment, the salaried clerk shall take the oath provided for in Article R. 742-31. He may only perform his duties from the day on which he takes his oath.Any salaried registrar…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D71-111-13

…forecast are carried forward, under the conditions set out in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 71-111-10, the entries in the budget are justified by the production in the appendix of a sheet calcula…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Resolution measures

Article R613-64

For the purposes of Article L. 613-55-1, the exclusion provided for in II of this Article of certain commitments that may be used for internal bail-in is intended in particular to prevent eligible dep…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Appearance before the Investigating Chamber

Article 695-29

The proceedings are immediately referred to the Investigating Chamber. The wanted person shall appear before it within five working days from the date of his presentation to the public prosecutor.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of the European arrest warrant

Article 695-18

…issued the European arrest warrant has obtained the surrender of the requested person, that person may not be prosecuted, sentenced or detained with a view to the enforcement of a custodial sentence…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of the European arrest warrant

Article 695-21

…issued the European arrest warrant has obtained the surrender of the requested person, that person may not, without the consent of the executing Member State, be surrendered to another Member State w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Appearance before the Investigating Chamber

Article 695-32

…nch territory uninterruptedly for at least five years, the execution of the European arrest warrant may be made subject to verification that he or she can be returned to France to serve the sentence t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions of performance

Article 695-23

The execution of a European arrest warrant may also be refused if the act which is the subject of the said arrest warrant does not constitute an offence under French law.By way of derogation from the…

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