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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Local conciliation commission.

Article R6142-20

…Education and Health. Subject to the provisions of article L. 6142-12, these ministers take a joint decision after having heard the representatives of the two contracting parties, if they consider it…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Compulsory licences in the interests of economic development

Article R613-26

…he formal notice provided for in Article L. 613-18 (paragraph 1) shall be the subject of a reasoned decision by the Minister responsible for industrial property, taken after consultation with the Mini…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Publication of documents.

Article R6143-38

Without prejudice to the publication obligations laid down by other provisions of this code, the decisions of the directors of public health institutions and the non-regulatory deliberations of their…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article A43-15

…les L. 325-1-1 or L. 325-1-2 of the Highway Code and who has subsequently been acquitted by a final decision may, in accordance with the provisions of the last paragraph of article L. If the acquittal…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Review proceedings

Article R4234-48

I.-The review of a final decision of the Disciplinary Chamber of First Instance or the National Disciplinary Chamber imposing a temporary ban, with or without a suspended sentence, or a permanent ban…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Penalties for irregularities.

Article L1235-10

…t ten employees within the same thirty-day period, any redundancy carried out in the absence of any decision relating to validation or homologation or where a negative decision has been issued shall b…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L4231-8

…of the Regional Council, may be entrusted, for the duration of his term of office, with taking any decision concerning the preparation, award, performance and settlement of contracts and framework ag…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Financial provisions

Article L5722-3

…uildings or real property rights envisaged by a public-private association gives rise to a reasoned decision by the decision-making body on the conditions of the sale and its essential characteristics…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Copies of criminal record files

Article R74

In the event of a conviction or a decision likely to modify the conditions of enlistment pronounced against an individual subject to compulsory military service, the clerk of the court which pronounce…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Board of Directors.

Article R1222-7

The deliberations of the Board of Directors are forwarded to the Minister for Health. Decisions relating to the budget and financial statements are enforceable under the conditions set out in Title II…

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