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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Professional inadequacy

Article R6156-78

The reasoned opinion issued by the committee is forwarded within fifteen days to the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion for decision.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Checking and recording offences

Article L425-7

…of the person in charge of the premises, or their representative. The inventory is appended to the report drawn up on the spot describing the operations. The originals of the report and the inventory…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 2: Mergers involving joint stock companies or limited liability companies

Article L236-10

I.-Unless the shareholders of the companies involved in the merger decide otherwise under the conditions set out in II of this article, one or more merger commissioners, appointed by court decision an…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules of good conduct

Article L519-6

…obtaining or granting a loan of money, is prohibited from receiving any sum representing a deposit, commission, research costs, enquiries, preparation of the file or mediation of any kind, prior to th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Admission to psychiatric care at the request of a third party or in the event of imminent danger

Article L3212-5

…State representative in the department or, in Paris, to the police prefect, and to the departmental commission for psychiatric care mentioned in article L. 3222-5 any decision to admit a person for ps…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article R442-2

…L. 432-2 are granted by decision of the Minister for the Economy, taken after consultation with the Commission for Guarantees and Foreign Trade Credit mentioned in article L. 432-3, except in the case…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 311-22

…The award of automatic financial aid for production and preparation is subject to the provisions of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatibl…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Recording of sums calculated on the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-55

…e automatic audiovisual production account for reference works belonging to the fiction genre, this company must incur, during the year of notification, expenditure corresponding to writing work on pr…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 311-21

…The award of automatic financial aid for production and preparation is subject to the provisions of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatibl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Discipline of commercial court judges.

Article L724-2

Disciplinary power is exercised by a national disciplinary commission which is chaired by a chamber president at the Cour de cassation, appointed by the first president of the Cour de cassation, and w…

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