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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article L645-1

A professional recovery procedure without liquidation is instituted, open to any debtor, natural person, mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 640-2, is in suspension of payments and whose re…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Information.

Article L4132-18

At least twelve days before the meeting of the Regional Council, the President shall send the Regional Councillors a report, in whatever form, on each of the matters to be submitted to them. Projects…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L5731-1

The metropolitan cluster is a public establishment set up by agreement between public establishments for intercommunal cooperation with their own tax status and, where applicable, the Lyon metropolis,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of the budget

Article LO6262-10

The closing of the local authority's accounts is constituted by the vote of the territorial council on the administrative account presented by the president of the territorial council after transmissi…

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In force

Article Annexe 9-3

Jurisdictions with jurisdiction in the overseas collectivities and New Caledonia to hear cases pursuant to article L. 610-1 or article L. 621-5 in the version applicable to French Polynesia of the pro…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Inter-company occupational health and prevention services.

Article L4622-11

The occupational health and prevention service is administered jointly by a board composed of :1° Employers' representatives appointed by the representative organisations at national and cross-industr…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Special rules for certain categories of intermediaries

Article L513-1

The obligations set out in this Book do not apply to insurance intermediaries on an ancillary basis where all of the following conditions are met: 1° The insurance contract complements the goods or se…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-47-1

The persons mentioned in the article L. 135 ZC du livre des procédures fiscales shall respond via the Europol national unit mentioned in paragraph 2 of Article 7 of Regulation 2016/794 of 11 May 2016…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: OVERSEAS REGIONS

Article L4437-1

For the application to Mayotte of Part Four of this Code: 1° The reference to the region or overseas region is replaced by the reference to the Department of Mayotte; 2° The reference to the regional…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Prohibitions.

Article L7124-16

It is forbidden : 1° For any person to have children under the age of sixteen perform perilous feats of strength or dislocation exercises, or to entrust them with jobs that are dangerous to their life…

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