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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3 : Transcription of a marriage celebrated abroad by a foreign authority

Article 171-8

…lied with and the marriage has been celebrated in the forms customary in the country, it shall be entered in the civil status registers unless new elements based on serious evidence lead to the presum…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3 : Transcription of a marriage celebrated abroad by a foreign authority

Article 171-7

…2, transcription is preceded by a joint hearing of the spouses and, where appropriate, individual interviews by the diplomatic or consular authority. However, if this authority has information establi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3 : Transcription of a marriage celebrated abroad by a foreign authority

Article 171-5

…French national celebrated by a foreign authority must be transcribed into French civil status registers. In the absence of transcription, the marriage of a French national, validly celebrated by a fo…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3 : Transcription of a marriage celebrated abroad by a foreign authority

Article 171-6

…sular civil registrar may only transcribe the foreign marriage record onto French civil status registers after the spouses have submitted a judicial release decision.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1640

…ding that of its creation, the municipalities and, where applicable, the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status participating in its creation take the deliberatio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Withdrawal of authorisation and appointment of a provisional administrator

Article D6323-19-1

…al Prefect observes repeated malfunctions or shortcomings, he or she will send the regional joint interprofessional committee a formal notice, stating the reasons, by any means that can be relied upon…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Provisions relating to the opening of a branch and the exercise of the freedom to provide services.

Article L321-11-1

…ity of the host Member State, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may refer the matter to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority in accordance with Article 19 of R…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Prior information notices and periodic indicative notices of purchasers' intention to award a contract

Article R2131-1

The purchaser may make known his intention to award a contract by publishing, in the case of the contracting authority, a prior information notice, or, in the case of the contracting entity, a periodi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Authorisation to practise for nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who hold evidence of formal qualifications issued by one of these States or by a third State and recognised by a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Article R4111-17

…els of qualification. The Director General of the Centre National de Gestion, on behalf of the Minister for Health, notifies the person concerned, in a duly reasoned decision, of the content and durat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Authorisation to practise for nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who hold evidence of formal qualifications issued by one of these States or by a third State and recognised by a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Article R4111-18

…a post by decision of the Director General of the National Management Centre, on behalf of the Minister for Health, on the basis of a commitment to take on a post, which must be attached to the applic…

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