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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Coordination committees.

Article D1432-13

Each committee draws up its own rules of procedure.

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
2 bis: Withholding of income tax at source

Article 119 ter

1. The withholding tax provided for in 2 of article 119 bis is not applicable to dividends distributed to a legal entity that meets the conditions listed in 2 of this article by a company or organisat…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Adaptation provisions

Article L3381-2

…pplication de la réglementation locale";4° A l'article L. 3114-9, the words: "within the meaning of Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and me…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Adaptation provisions

Article L3351-2

…pplication de la réglementation locale";4° A l'article L. 3114-9, the words: "within the meaning of Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and me…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 12: Provisions relating to relations with the authorities of non-EU Member States in the context of a resolution procedure

Article L613-62

I. - The provisions of this article shall apply where there is no agreement between the European Union and a State which is not a member of the Union and where an existing agreement does not deal with…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Financial provisions

Article L2412-1

…real balance in the operating and investment sections.The draft budget is drawn up by the syndicate commission and submitted to the municipal council for adoption. The municipal council may adopt amen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Unified group nursing, rehabilitation and medico-technical care committee

Article D6132-13-9

…es a number of members which may not be less than 10% of the total number of elected members of the commission. The number of substitute seats to be filled per college is equal to the number of full m…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Prerogatives and means of intervention

Article R412-3

…age animée and issued, individually and by name, to the person in charge of it. When this person is commissioned to accompany the agents on site during a control operation, the mission order indicates…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 3: Common provisions

Article R312-8

…articles D. 312-5-1, D. 312-5-2 and D. 312-7-2 have been taken. The Deputy Director of Visas or the Commission, as the case may be, may only be duly notified by the person who is the subject of the de…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Management of undivided property and rights.

Article L5222-3

On the proposal of the syndicate commission and on the decision of the municipal councils of two thirds of the communes representing more than half of their total population, or of at least half of th…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
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