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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Annual activity report for electricity concessions

Article D2224-39

Information relating to the investment and maintenance policy for concession networks includes: 1° The report on the network investment and development policy referred to in the third paragraph of I o…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Preventing obesity and overweight

Article D3232-3

The Agence nationale de santé publique may approve campaigns whose applications are submitted to it, taking into account : 1° Their objectives, with regard to those mentioned in Article L. 1411-2; 2°…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: State aid and agreements.

Article R5313-3

The State aid referred to in article L. 5313-1 is allocated by the Regional Prefect to employment centres for the implementation of the following actions, based on a territorial diagnosis: 1° Particip…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Information system for the personal training account and the individual right to training for local elected representatives

Article R6323-34

I.-Insofar as their use is necessary for the purposes defined in 1° to 9° bis, 11° and 12° of article R. 6323-33, the categories of personal data relating to the holder of the personal training accoun…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Information system for the personal training account and the individual right to training for local elected representatives

Article R6323-37

I.-Within the framework of the purposes defined in article R. 6323-33 and within the limits of the need to know, the automated processing mentioned in article R. 6323-32 may be fed by the automated pr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Authorisations

Article R6122-31

When the quantitative targets defined by the regional or inter-regional health plan are reached in one of the zones defined in 2° of I of Article L. 1434-3, the Director General of the Regional Health…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IIa: Fixed fine procedure

Article A37-33

I.-On the reverse, entitled: "Information", appear, at the top of the document: 1° The reproduction, preceded by the mention: "The texts below are extracts, for their entirety, refer to the various co…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article D712-30

The alert is sent by the National Institute of Industrial Property electronically within five working days of the publication of the filing of an application for registration of the trademark, contain…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Registration and publication of deeds, agreements and judgments

Article D123-3

The authority responsible for the cinema and audiovisual registers shall check that the deed, agreement or judgment submitted in its original version is accompanied by a translation or summary drawn u…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General information

Article R721-3

I. - The opening of the public enquiry into an application for approval of a specification provided for in 2° of article L. 721-3 is the subject of a notice which is published, concomitantly with the…

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