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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Performance of the contract

Article L224-15

…consumer receives the termination invoice within four weeks of termination of the contract. The supplier may only charge the consumer for the costs it has actually incurred, via the network operator,…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 4: Taking vulnerability into account

Article L531-10

During the entire procedure for examining the application, the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons may define the special examination procedures it deems necessary for t…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 4: Policing of teaching activities

Article L212-14

It is punishable by one year's imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 euros for any person to teach, lead or supervise a physical or sporting activity in disregard of a measure taken in application of arti…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 4: Policing of teaching activities

Article L212-13

…ns of a reasoned order, prohibit any person whose continued activity constitutes a danger to the health and physical or moral safety of the participants, temporarily or permanently, from performing al…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Business creators' share warrants

Article L212-17

Business creator share warrants may be allocated under the conditions and according to the procedures set out in article 163 bis G of the French General Tax Code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Territorial professional health communities

Article L1434-12

…to ensure better coordination of their activities and thus contribute to the structuring of the healthcare pathways referred to in article L. 1411-1 and the achievement of the objectives of the regio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Territorial professional health communities

Article L1434-13

In order to meet the needs identified as part of the territorial diagnostics referred to in III of article L. 1434-10 and on the basis of the health projects of primary care teams, the health projects…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Relocation of film screenings

Article L212-18

…the suspension of the operation of one of its cinemas, an operator of a cinema wishes to organise film screenings that are part of the programming of this cinema outside the establishment, he must mak…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 4: Transfer of project ownership

Article L2422-12

When the construction or rehabilitation of a structure or group of structures simultaneously falls within the remit of several project owners mentioned in article L. 2411-1 or one or more of these pro…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 4: Transfer of project ownership

Article L2422-13

When the State entrusts one of its public establishments with the implementation of investment projects or programmes, it may decide that this establishment will exercise all the powers of project own…

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