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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Transport and infrastructure management

Article L4424-16

…ided for by the provisions relating to collective transport services in the sustainable development and planning plan.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Transport and infrastructure management

Article L4424-19

…ide sufficient passenger or freight services in terms of continuity, regularity, frequency, quality and price and, where appropriate, capacity, to alleviate the constraints associated with insularity…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other conditions of access and practice

Article R519-11-3

I.-Banking and payment services intermediaries within the meaning of Article L. 519-1 and their staff update their professional knowledge and skills, as part of ongoing training, through professional…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-18

The mayor, or where applicable the president of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation, sends the head of the State department in the département responsible for town planning a copy…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-16

This paragraph sets out the conditions under which communes and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation are required, pursuant to article L. 1614-7, to continue compiling statistics relat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-17

…ayor or the president of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation sends the prefect: 1° A copy of each application for a building permit, development permit and demolition permit, compl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-19

The various standardised forms used for the requests mentioned in article R. 1614-17 or for the declarations mentioned in article R. 1614-18 are provided free of charge by the State.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Managing Director.

Article R1413-16

The Director General is the chief authorising officer for the Agency's revenue and expenditure. He may appoint secondary authorising officers.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Managing Director.

Article R1413-15

…that are not reserved to the Board of Directors by virtue of the provisions of articles R. 1413-12 and R. 1413-13. Each year, he proposes the agency's strategic guidelines to the Board of Directors.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Managing Director.

Article R1413-18

…his authority. He may delegate some of his powers relating to the Agency's missions mentioned in 5° and in the eleventh paragraph of article L. 1413-1 to agents appointed to carry out functions of adm…

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