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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 8: Departmental Commission for Intercommunal Cooperation

Article L5211-45

The departmental commission for inter-municipal cooperation draws up and updates a report on inter-municipal cooperation in the department. It may formulate any proposal aimed at strengthening inter-m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Partial access

Article L4002-4

The application for partial access by the person concerned shall be examined, depending on the case, as an application for establishment or for freedom to provide services in the profession concerned.…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 6: Right to use journalists' works

Article L132-44

A commission is set up, chaired by a representative of the State, and composed, in addition, of half representatives of representative professional press organisations and half representatives of repr…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Administrative police measures

Article L521-4

The measures provided for in this section shall be implemented by the competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers and the officers referred to in Article L. 511-22 or by the competent adm…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 6: Right to use journalists' works

Article L132-40

Any transfer of the work with a view to its exploitation outside the initial press title or a coherent press family is subject to the express prior agreement of its author expressed on an individual b…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 6: Right to use journalists' works

Article L132-45

Article L. 132-41 applies as from the entry into force of an industry agreement determining the minimum wage for professional journalists who derive most of their income from the use of still images a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article L211-4

The securities account is opened, or the entry is made in a shared electronic recording device, in the name of one or more account holders who are the owners of the financial securities held in the ac…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Chairman and Vice-Chairman.

Article L1423-4

The chairman of the industrial tribunal is either an employee or an employer. Whichever is elected first is determined by lot.If the chairman is chosen from among the employee councillors, the vice-ch…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Criminal penalties.

Article L1324-4

Damaging public works intended to receive or conduct water supply or allowing substances likely to harm public health to be introduced into spring water, fountains, wells, cisterns, pipes, aqueducts o…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exceptional and nuclear risks.

Article L431-4

The Caisse Centrale de Réassurance, acting with the guarantee of the State, is authorised to insure or reinsure against risks resulting from exceptional events, such as foreign or civil war, public or…

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