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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Social security.

Article L4135-20-2

…nditions defined in article L. 382-31 of the social security code. The contributions of the regions and those of the elected member are calculated on the amount of the allowances actually received by…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Social security.

Article D3123-23-2

When the waiting period stipulated by the social security scheme to which the departmental elected representative is subject for the payment of daily allowances is longer than the 15-day period set ou…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Social security.

Article D4135-23-2

When the waiting period stipulated by the social security scheme to which the regional elected representative is subject for the payment of daily allowances is longer than the 15-day period set out in…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Compulsory licences for patents relating to the manufacture of pharmaceutical products for export to countries with public health problems

Article R613-25-2

The order granting the compulsory operating licence shall be issued after a reasoned opinion has been given by the committee referred to in Article R. 613-10 which shall give its opinion on whether th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-2-2

…inary medicinal product, until the medicinal product has been brought into compliance with the laws and regulations in force.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 10

…er may refer the matter back to the court for a ruling on its claim in accordance with articles 710 and 711. The presence of the public prosecutor at this hearing is optional. When the mental or physi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 1

Public prosecution for the enforcement of sentences is initiated and exercised by the magistrates or civil servants to whom it is entrusted by law.This action may also be initiated by the injured part…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Public bodies and other organisations

Article 1654

…he State or local authorities must subject to the provisions of articles 133,207,208,1040, 1382,1394and 1449 to 1463 acquit, under the conditions of ordinary law, taxes of any kind to which private co…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Administrative rectification and cancellation

Article 1047

The purely material errors or omissions which, pursuant to Article 99-1 of the Civil Code, may be rectified by the civil registrar, are: 1° An error or omission in a civil status record, proof of whic…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Administrative rectification and cancellation

Article 1046

…th territorial jurisdiction to carry out the administrative rectification of purely material errors and omissions in civil status records and the annulment of irregularly drawn up records is the publi…

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