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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Illness and accident

Article R1262-2

The declaration referred to in article L. 1262-4-4 shall be sent within two working days of the occurrence of the accident at work, by any means that can be relied upon to provide a date certain. The…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Right of expression

Article R1262-3

The provisions relating to the right of expression, set out in Articles L. 2281-1 to L. 2281-4, are applicable to employees seconded under the conditions set out in 2° of Article L. 1262-1.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Illness and accident

Article R1262-1

When the period of secondment in France exceeds one month, the provisions relating to absences due to illness or accident, set out in article L. 1226-1, are applicable to seconded employees.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-5

…he most detailed subdivision of the nomenclature defined by the decree provided for in Article L. 5217-10-5, supplemented, for programmes, by the programme number and, for operations on behalf of thir…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-12

I. - The financing requirement or surplus of the investment section at the end of the financial year is made up of the outturn balance corrected by the outstanding commitments.The outturn balance of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-3

The budget implementation period is limited to the year to which this budget applies for the authorisation of expenditure and the issue of revenue orders.However, this period includes an additional pe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-6

The chapters of the budgets voted by function correspond:a) Investment section:- for expenditure and revenue that can be broken down, to group 90 "Breakdown of operations", completed by the number of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-8

The report provided for in Article L. 5217-10-2 describes, in summary form, the local authority's sustainable development situation based on the assessments, documents and reports produced by the metr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-10

…e cross presentation, by function or by nature, provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 5217-10-5 is made between the most detailed level of the functional nomenclature and each of the accou…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-2

The budget runs from 1 January to 31 December.

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