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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 9: Informing and involving residents.

Article L5211-50

An information file on the subject of the consultation is made available to the public on site at the headquarters of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation, in each town hall and, w…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 9: Informing and involving residents.

Article L5211-49

The electors of the communes that are members of a public establishment of inter-communal cooperation may be consulted on decisions that the deliberative body or the president of this establishment ar…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 9: Informing and involving residents.

Article L5211-52

No consultation of the electors of the communes that are members of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation may take place from 1 January of the calendar year preceding the year of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 9: Informing and involving residents.

Article L5211-46

Any natural or legal person has the right to request communication of the deliberations and minutes of the deliberative bodies of the public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation, the budgets…

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

Article L5217-10

Subject to the provisions of this section, metropolitan areas shall be subject to the provisions of Book III of Part Two.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Recognition of the professional qualifications of nationals of a Member State of the European Community or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L2223-47

Professionals who are nationals of a Member State of the European Community or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area may practise all or some of these professional acti…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter I: Contracts comprising severable services

Article L1321-1

Where a purchaser decides to enter into a single contract even though the contract relates to objectively separable services which are subject, on the one hand, to the ordinary law governing contracts…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Packaging characteristics

Article L3512-21

I.-The labelling of unit packets, any outer packaging and the tobacco product itself may not include any element or device that : 1° Contributes to the promotion of a tobacco product or encourages its…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2253-3

The securities mentioned in article L. 2253-2 are held in registered form or represented by registered certificates.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Indemnities of holders of office in the Martinique Assembly and of office in the Executive Council

Article L7227-17

Councillors to the Assembly of Martinique receive, for the actual performance of their duties, an allowance fixed by reference to the amount of the salary corresponding to the terminal gross index of…

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