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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Tests and analyses

Article R512-38

…sample does not comply with the characteristics to which the product must conform, the administrative department to which the authorised official reports, after any useful additional enquiries, will…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Tests and analyses

Article R512-31

The tests and analyses are carried out by State laboratories.The competence of each laboratory authorised to carry out these tests and analyses is set by an order of the minister responsible for the e…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Tests and analyses

Article R512-35

…liament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 as amended on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules. The Minis…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Overseas departments

Article 1649

A decree in the Council of State sets the date and conditions under which the provisions relating to property tax on built-up properties, property tax on non-built-up properties and council tax on sec…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: REFUGEE STATUS

Article R511-2

The administrative authority competent to ask the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons to terminate refugee status, pursuant to the first or second paragraph of article L…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: REFUGEE STATUS

Article R511-1

The list referred to in 2° of Article L. 511-7 comprises the following States: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: SUBSIDIARY PROTECTION

Article R512-1

The administrative authority competent to ask the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons to terminate the benefit of subsidiary protection, pursuant to article L. 512-3, is…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Allocation for registering applications and issuing secure documents

Article L2335-16

…allocated for each station in operation in the municipality on 1 January of the current year and a variable portion allocated for each station based on the number of passport and national identity ca…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Expenses

Article L2543-3

…costs of the communal administration; 2° Housing allowances due to ministers of recognised cults by virtue of the provisions of the decree of 30 December 1809 concerning church factories and the ordin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: The mayor

Article L2541-19

The mayor administers communal affairs insofar as the intervention of the municipal council is not required. He prepares the deliberations of the municipal council. He alone is responsible for their e…

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