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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-30

During the first quarter of each calendar year and in respect of the previous year, the president of the departmental council sends the prefect, using standardised forms: 1° A statistical statement of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-35

The prefect shall communicate to the president of the departmental council, within one month of its publication, the use made at departmental, regional and national level by the State services of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-31

Each year, the chairman of the departmental council sends the prefect, using a standard form, a statistical statement giving a breakdown by function of social assistance expenditure and revenue for th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-32

The model of the standardised documents referred to in articles R. 1614-29, R. 1614-30 and R. 1614-31 is set by joint order of the Minister for the Interior and the Minister for Social Affairs and Hea…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Withholding

Article L521-17-3

Where the applicant uses information provided to him by the customs administration, by way of derogation from Article 59 bis of the Customs Code, for purposes other than those provided for in this Cha…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: National Design Litigation

Article L521-3-1

Civil actions and claims relating to designs and models, including where they also concern a related question of unfair competition, shall be brought exclusively before the judicial courts, determined…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: Insurance obligation

Article L321-3-1

Practitioners cannot be held liable for material damage caused to another practitioner by something in their custody, within the meaning of the first paragraph of article 1242 of the Civil Code, when…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4a: Trade union audience measurement for companies with fewer than eleven employees

Article L2122-10-3

By way of derogation from their professional secrecy obligations, the social security funds communicate to the services of the minister responsible for labour the data relating to companies employing…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Branches of insurance undertakings whose head office is situated in a State which is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L329-3-1

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the conditions of application of this chapter.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Town Council

Article L2121-30-1

For the application of article 75 of the Civil Code, the mayor may, unless the public prosecutor objects, allocate any communal building, other than that of the community centre, located within the co…

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