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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Special provisions for overseas departments.

Article R*214-4

The powers exercised by the Minister of the Interior pursuant to article R. 211-1 and article R. 211-18 are devolved to the Minister responsible for the overseas departments and territories.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Governance system

Article R354-2-4

Where insurance and reinsurance undertakings use external credit assessments for the calculation of prudential technical provisions and the Solvency Capital Requirement, they shall, as part of their r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Responsibilities.

Article L462-4-2

The Competition Authority issues an opinion to the Minister of Justice, who is its guarantor, on the freedom of establishment of lawyers at the Council of State and the Court of Cassation. It makes re…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Compulsory licences for patents relating to the manufacture of pharmaceutical products for export to countries with public health problems

Article R613-25-4

The arrangements for the identification of products manufactured under compulsory licence pursuant to Article 10-5 of Regulation (EC) No 816/2006 are established by a decision of the Director General…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3a: Provisions relating to electronic communication using the application referred to in Article R. 414-1 of the Code of Administrative Justice

Article R532-28-4

The arrival of the appeal and the various pleadings is certified by the acknowledgement of receipt issued electronically.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 9: Circular economy

Article L4433-24-4

The regional council may adopt a regional action plan for the circular economy. It may also decide to conduct local experiments involving the interconnection of the various waste collection, sorting a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Powers of the Regional Council

Article L4433-4-2

In areas of State competence, the authorities of the Republic may empower the President of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe, Mayotte and Reunion to negotiate and sign agreements with one or more Sta…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General rules

Article L5211-4-2

In addition to the powers transferred, a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status, one or more of its member municipalities and, where applicable, one or more of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Democratisation and transparency.

Article L5211-40-2

Municipal councillors of member municipalities of a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment who are not members of its deliberative body are informed of the affairs of the establishment that…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to statutory pension increases

Article A421-4-2

The liabilities of this section comprise, on the one hand, the reserve related to operations resulting from the extinction of the financing of statutory annuity increases and, on the other hand, debts…

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