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Showing 25512560 of 4405 articles for Art. LD-AdIC §§ 22–29

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Managing Director

Article R1313-23

The Chief Executive is assisted by directors according to the organisation of the agency, including a Deputy Chief Executive who deputises for the Chief Executive in the event of vacancy, absence or i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation of the agency committee

Article R1432-109-1

The full members and alternate members of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee are entitled to a monthly credit of delegation hours to carry out all the tasks of the Committee, its committees a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: POWERS OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL

Article R4221-4

When the price of acquisitions of real estate, real property rights or businesses made under the rules of ordinary law by the regions and their public establishments gives rise to reinvestment in real…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 211-127

The amount of aid is set at €500,000 per project, subject to the provisions of articles…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article R225-82

Proxy and remote voting forms transmitted electronically under the conditions defined in Article R. 225-61 comply with the rules laid down in Articles R. 225-76 to R. 225-81, R. 22-10-24 and R. 225-95…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article R1221-19

Renewal is granted or refused following a procedure identical to that followed for an initial application for approval. An organisation which has not submitted the annual report referred to in Article…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article R50-15

When the claimant requests the award of an advance, the chairman of the commission immediately communicates the request to the public prosecutor and the guarantee fund and obtains their observations.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Identification of accounts and treatment of over-indebtedness

Article R721-21

The Institut d'émission d'outre-mer shall centralise the declarations relating to cheque accounts and the declarations relating to safes provided for in Article R. 721-22 for the sole purpose of carry…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Registration and publicity.

Article R4381-37

Notwithstanding articles 22, 24 and 26 of Decree no. 78-704 of 3 July 1978 relating to the application of Law no. 78-9 of 4 January 1978 amending Title IX of Book III of the Civil Code, the company is…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4a: Compensation for victims of benfluorex

Article L1142-24-3

The Advisory Board referred to in Articles L. 3111-9 and L. 3122-1 shall exercise the same powers in relation to the Board of Directors of the Office, in respect of the damage referred to in the third…

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