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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Allowances for holders of departmental mandates

Article L3123-18

…ial civil service, the board of directors or supervisory board of a company or who chairs a company may not receive, for all their duties, a total amount of remuneration and allowances exceeding one a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Allowances for holders of regional mandates.

Article L4135-18

…ivil servants, the board of directors or the supervisory board of a company or who chairs a company may not receive, for all of his functions, a total amount of remuneration and expense allowance grea…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Special provisions for securitisation undertakings or compartments of securitisation undertakings carrying insurance risks

Article L214-189

…ternal control and risk management mechanisms. The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may, by a reasoned decision, withdraw its authorisation at the request of the undertaking or if it n…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-18

The public prosecutor at a judicial court other than that of Paris may, for offences falling within the scope of Article 706-16, request the investigating judge to relinquish jurisdiction in favour of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Implementation and administration.

Article R4622-18

…e medical examination of fitness or the information and prevention visit carried out on recruitment may take place during the next visit to a locality where one of these centres operates within a peri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 16: Interventional cardiology imaging procedures

Article D6124-185

…g the procedure, in order to take part in the management of any life-threatening complications that may arise.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Product presentation

Article L3513-18

…he labelling of unit packets, any outer packaging and the nicotine-containing vaping product itself may not include any element or device which: 1° Contributes to the promotion of vaping products or e…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific technical provisions the popular retirement savings plan

Article R144-18

A popular retirement savings plan may be of one or more of the following types: 1° A plan involving the acquisition of a deferred life annuity; 2° A plan consisting in the constitution of savings conv…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L2411-18

…n of sections, a legal entity governed by public law, is administered by a committee comprising the mayor of the municipality and two elected representatives of each union committee. The committee ele…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-18

…inhabitants, geographical constraints and the location of health establishments. An on-call sector may cover several departments within the same region. The duration of on-call duty can be adapted to…

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