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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS

Article L3444-3

…tments shall be consulted by the Minister responsible for the overseas departments on proposals for European Union acts concerning their department. The provisions of the second paragraph of Article L…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII ter: Arrangements for placement under mobile electronic surveillance as a security measure

Article R61-8

The multidisciplinary commission for security measures is composed of: 1° A chamber president at the court of appeal appointed for a five-year term by the first president of the court of appeal within…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Managing agents.

Article L146-3

…m it is bound by a contract, or their representatives, sets in particular the amount of the minimum commission guaranteed in all managing-agent contracts concluded by the said principal. This minimum…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Penalty procedure

Article R423-3

The secretariat of the Regulatory Control Commission is provided by staff from the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, appointed by the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'im…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: COMMUNES DES DÉPARTEMENTS DE LA MOSELLE, DU BAS-RHIN ET DU HAUT-RHIN

Article L5816-6

With regard to the administration of the common property and the execution of works relating thereto, the syndicate commission has all the powers attributed to the municipal council. The powers of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Personalised support vouchers (R)

Article R1611-12

The commission provided for in article L. 1611-6 and responsible for registering declarations to open personalised support voucher accounts is made up of a representative of the minister responsible f…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Other applications of the Community arbitration procedure

Article R5121-51-8

…t et des produits de santé or the applicant for marketing authorisation may refer the matter to the European Medicines Agency with a view to the application of the Community arbitration procedure prov…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V BIS : General provisions

Article R249-10

The records, acts and documents recorded in the processing are: 1° Records and reports drawn up by officers or agents of the judicial police and officials and agents responsible for certain judicial p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Commercial authorisation.

Article L752-14

I. - The Commission départementale d'aménagement commercial authorises projects by an absolute majority vote of the members present. The minutes shall indicate the meaning of the vote cast by each of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Appeals against the decision or opinion of the departmental committee.

Article R752-32

On pain of inadmissibility of his appeal, within five days of its presentation to the national commission, the appellant, if he is different from the applicant for the commercial development authorisa…

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