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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Approval of circuits.

Article R331-41

A report is drawn up following the committee's visit and, if the opinion is favourable, it proposes that the circuit be approved either for a specific event or for several types of event. This report,…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 421-7

A production company may not submit an application for development aid or an application for enhanced development aid if it has already received five development or enhanced development aids for proje…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L237-4

No person may be appointed as liquidator who is prohibited from holding the office of chief executive officer, director, company manager or member of the management or supervisory board, or who has fo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Injunctions to perform

Article L238-4

Any interested party may ask the president of the court ruling in summary proceedings to enjoin, subject to a fine, the chairman of the management and administrative bodies to transcribe the minutes o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Collective coordination procedure

Article L694-4

The judgments of the court ruling on the requests for suspension and lifting of the suspension of the insolvency proceedings submitted by the coordinator pursuant to e of 2 of Article 72 may be appeal…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Access to documents.

Article L8113-4

The labour inspectors referred to in Article L. 8112-1 may, during their inspections, ask to see all the books, registers and documents made compulsory by this Code or by any legal provision relating…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Investigation.

Article R463-4

In application of article L. 450-6, the General Rapporteur entrusts the investigation of a case to one or more rapporteurs appointed by him. In the course of the investigation, he may change this appo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: General provisions (R).

Article R1614-46

The competent public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation are direct beneficiaries of the special assistance instead of their member communes. The amount thus allocated may not exceed the su…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article D3311-4

Employees of an employers' group that has not set up a profit-sharing scheme may benefit from the profit-sharing scheme set up in each of the companies in the group to which they are seconded if the a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Individual health monitoring

Article R4446-4

The occupational physician will determine the relevance and nature of any examinations that may be necessary for workers who have undergone exposure similar to that of a worker suffering from a diseas…

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