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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Municipalities and their groupings

Article L1422-1

…the division of powers between the municipalities, departments, regions and the State, effectively exercise powers in the field of vaccination or disinfection as well as in the field of administrativ…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Monitoring and penalties.

Article L363-1

…ay require them and their branches established in France to provide all information relevant to the exercise of this supervision. Subject only to having informed the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et…

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French Civil Aviation CodeIn force
CHAPTER III: POLICING OF AERODROMES AND AERONAUTICAL INSTALLATIONS.

Article L213-2

…ority with regard to aerodromes and installations dependent on national defence, by the prefect who exercises, for this purpose within their boundaries, the powers granted to the mayor by article L. 2…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Decisions and appeals.

Article L464-10

…to the file of the proceedings may be used by a party having had access to this file solely for the exercise of the rights of defence in proceedings relating to an appeal brought against a decision of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-5

Where there are no conciliation proceedings in progress, the court may also be seised at the request of the public prosecutor for the purpose of opening receivership proceedings. Subject to the same p…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Performers' rights

Article R212-8

The performer who wishes to exercise the right to terminate the authorisation given to a phonogram producer provided for in article L. 212-3-1 notifies the producer of his intention to terminate by re…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Rural equipment support

Article L3232-1-1

…s or public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation that do not have sufficient resources to exercise their competencies in the areas of sanitation, protection of water resources, restoration a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 4: Powers of the President of the Executive Council.

Article L4422-25

…he said departments. He manages the assets of the Corsican regional authority. In this capacity, he exercises the police powers relating to this management. He delegates by decree, under his supervisi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Provisions relating to the setting up of a relay establishment

Article L613-53

…tution is wholly or partially owned by one or more public entities. The collège de résolution shall exercise all the rights associated with the holding of shares or other forms of ownership. The imple…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions.

Article L5224-2

…to five years, on carrying out directly or through an intermediary the professional activity in the exercise or on the occasion of the exercise of which the offence was committed, in accordance with t…

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