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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Compensation for victims

Article L1142-23

The Office is subject to an administrative, budgetary, financial and accounting system defined by decree. The Office's expenses consist of : 1° The payment of compensation to victims of medical accide…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Group action

Article L623-27

The action mentioned in article L. 623-1 suspends the limitation period for individual actions for damages resulting from breaches established by the judgment provided for in articles L. 623-4 or L. 6…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-15

The scope of services relating to the services provided for in articles L. 2224-13 et L. 2224-14 is set by the municipalities or their groupings as part of the waste prevention and management plans pr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions applicable to satellite broadcasting, communication on an ancillary online service and simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission

Article L217-2

I.-Where provided for by this code, the right to authorise the simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged cable retransmission on national territory of a performer's performance, a phonogram or a videogra…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article L351-7

Sont applicables dans les îles Wallis et Futuna, sous réserve des adaptations prévues à l'article L. 351-8, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L131-5-1

I.-Where the author has transferred all or part of his exploitation rights, the assignee shall send him or make available to him by an electronic communication process, at least once a year, explicit…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Moral rights

Article L121-8

The author alone has the right to compile his articles and speeches into a collection and to publish them or to authorise their publication in that form. For all works published in a press title withi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article L5217-16

…ges transferred by the region, the amount of which is set under the conditions provided for in Articles L. 5217-14 and L. 5217-15, are compensated for by the payment, each year, by the region to the m…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Debt securities

Article L744-5

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Debt securities

Article L742-5

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Applicable ar…

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