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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-1 A

Everyone should have access, at least daily, in their home or living environment or, failing that, close to it, to a sufficient quantity of water intended for human consumption to meet their needs in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-2-1

…imeters around the abstraction point under the conditions defined in the first paragraph of article L. 1321-2. These provisions only apply to abstractions existing on 1st January 2004.The prohibitions…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MEASURES

Article L2251-3-1

Municipalities and their groupings may award operating grants to the local structures of representative trade union organisations under conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. The organi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Discipline.

Article L4234-8-1

Decisions of the National Disciplinary Board are rendered in collegial formation, subject to exceptions, specified by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, relating to the subject of the referral or dispute o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Discipline.

Article L4234-5-1

…ute or the nature of the issues to be examined or decided. They may be rendered by a restricted panel.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Realisation of assets.

Article L642-20-1

…ained is not withdrawn in accordance with the conditions set out in the second paragraph of Article L. 641-3, the liquidator must, within six months of the judgment of compulsory liquidation, apply to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-4

For the purposes mentioned in the two preceding articles, the High Council is exempt from the application of the provisions of loi n° 68-678 du 26 juillet 1968 relative à la communication de documents…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-5

…erest of undertakings in the protection of their business secrets, without prejudice to the article L. 463-4 of the French Commercial Code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L5125-23-1

In the context of chronic treatment, in exceptional circumstances and subject to informing the prescribing doctor, when the period of validity of a renewable prescription has expired and in order to a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L785-11

I.-Subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-…

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