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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Budget (R)

Article R2221-45

…Contributions, reserves and similar receipts; 2° Investment grants; 3° Provisions and depreciation; 4° Borrowings and similar debts ; 5° The net book value of fixed assets removed from the assets; 6°…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2

Article R421-42

…rd extracts of judgements and settlements in accordance with the provisions of decree no. 66-136 of 4 March 1966 recover, under the same conditions as fines, the surcharge of 50% introduced for the be…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article D111-4

Under the provisions of the first paragraph of Article L. 111-4, the information provided by the manufacturer or importer of movable property to the professional seller, relating to the period during…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Work equipment

Article R4461-47

…kers in hyperbaric conditions; 3° Produce, transfer, store, distribute and monitor breathing gases; 4° Provide emergency assistance. A joint order by the Ministers for Labour and Agriculture specifies…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of the project owner.

Article R4532-4

…nd safety coordinator from the start of the preliminary design phase, within the meaning of article 4 of decree no. 93-1268 of 29 November 1993 relating to project management assignments entrusted by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Emergency evacuation of victims by approved civil protection associations

Article R6312-44

…cue operations or as an extension of preventive rescue measures, in accordance with articles L. 725-4 and L. 725-5 of the FrenchInternal Security Code, the crews and vehicles used by approved civil pr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5421-4

…1-8 of the same code;3° Recipients receiving a pension awarded in application of articles L. 161-17-4, L. 351-1-1, L. 351-1-3 to L. 351-1-5 and II and III of articles L. 643-3 and L. 653-2 of the Soci…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Deposit.

Article R3332-4

…d the list of investment instruments, on the tele-procedure platform referred to in article D. 2231-4.The unilateral document mentioned in articles L. 3332-6-1 and L. 3333-7-1 is filed on the same pla…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Orientation and placement

Article R5213-4

…exceed twelve weeks. To this end, the approval of the training course provided for in article L. 6341-4 is expressed in terms of the number of trainee weeks. This is at most equal to the product of t…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article L441-4

…Guiana;2° Section 3 of Chapter II of Title III is not applicable;3° The last sentence of Article L. 423-19 is deleted;4° The second paragraph of Article L. 435-1 is deleted.

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