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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1321-13

The act declaring the works to extract water for human consumption to be in the public interest is preceded by a public enquiry governed by the provisions of Title I of Book I of the Code de l'expropr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Death certificate

Article R2213-1-2

I. - Subject to the exceptions provided for in article R. 2213-1-4, the doctor, student or practitioner who recorded the death shall, as soon as possible, draw up a certificate on an electronic medium…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-31

I.-For the application of article D. 4425-30: a) The population to be taken into account is the sum of the total populations, municipal and counted separately, of the Corsican local authority, as it r…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Artist authors

Article R6331-64

I. - Within the skills operator responsible for managing the contribution referred to in article L. 6331-55 , a special section is created to manage the contributions referred to in article L. 6331-65…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Development grant.

Article L2334-13

A development grant is instituted, comprising a grant for the benefit of groups of communes, a national equalisation grant, an urban solidarity and social cohesion grant, a rural solidarity grant, a s…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Annex I

Article Sommaire

…nts to control expenditure The principles for implementing this list of supporting documents are: -neutrality: the list does not modify the regulations in force. It is merely a consequence of them. -c…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 13: Access to payment accounts

Article L133-40

…es under the conditions set out in the delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 98.1 of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on payment services…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operations

Article L513-4

…s, central banks, public institutions, local authorities or groups thereof of a Member State of the European Union; 2. Central governments or central banks of non-EU Member States with the highest cre…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to preventive group resolution plans

Article L613-40-1

…a matter is referred to it by the consolidated resolution authority of another Member State of the European Union as the resolution authority of a subsidiary belonging to a group for the purposes of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors

Article R822-33

…bling employees to report any breaches of the rules applicable to the profession and of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014; i) Procedures enabling the performance of account certification engagements and the…

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