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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Inclusion on the lists of espoir athletes and national teams

Article R221-11

…project of the relevant delegated federation. Inclusion in this category is valid for one year. It may be renewed under the same conditions.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L111-11

…r a period appropriate to their purpose. For pre-contractual and contractual documents, this period may not be less than five years after the end of the contractual relationship. If the insurer, inter…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 2: Ordinary procedure

Article R121-11

…/a> to R. 121-10. It mentions, under the same sanction, the conditions under which the defendant may or must be assisted or represented, as well as, if applicable, the name of the claimant's repres…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: Other legal divorce proceedings

Article 1123-1

…eptance of the principle of the breakdown of the marriage regardless of the facts giving rise to it may also result from a document signed privately by the parties and countersigned by lawyers in the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Sociétés de participations financières de profession libérale de commissaires aux comptes

Article R822-117

…the company fails to regularise its situation, the Compagnie nationale des commissaires aux comptes may invite the partners, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, to pronounce the earl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation

Article R4422-11

…on from at least half of the meetings is recorded by the council's bureau over a period of one year may, on the bureau's proposal, be declared to have resigned automatically by the Prefect of Corsica.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Nursing, rehabilitation and medico-technical care committee

Article R6146-11

…llege of nursing assistants. Each of the three colleges is represented by a number of members which may not be less than 10% of the total number of elected members of the commission. II. - The followi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-11

The joint fund helps to finance the following activities, which constitute missions of general interest for the employees' trade union organisations and the professional employers' organisations conce…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Financial holding companies, parent companies of finance companies, mixed financial holding companies, financial conglomerates, mixed holding companies and mixed parent companies of finance companies.

Article R517-11

…° The internal organisation and allocation of tasks within the group; 5° Any other information that may be necessary to carry out the assessments referred to in Articles L. 517-13 and L. 517-14.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Identification and lists of members of the medical professions.

Article D4113-115

For doctors, dental surgeons and midwives required to be registered on the roll of the Association, the Departmental Council of the Association in whose area of jurisdiction their place of professiona…

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