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French Public Health CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: Human rights

Article L1110-4

I.-Any person being cared for by a healthcare professional, an establishment or service, a professional or organisation involved in prevention or care whose conditions of practice or activities are go…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Supervision of groups on a consolidated basis

Article L613-20-1

I. - Subject to the provisions of Article L. 517-12, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall exercise supervision on a consolidated basis of a group within the meaning of Articles L…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VII: Metropolitan France

Article L5217-2

I. - The metropolis automatically exercises, in place of the member municipalities, the following competences:1° In matters of economic, social and cultural development and planning:a) Creation, devel…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-34-4

I. - Notwithstanding the provisions of Act 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-41

I. - Credit institutions and finance companies are required to comply with management standards designed to guarantee their liquidity and solvency vis-à-vis depositors and, more generally, third parti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: Human rights

Article L1110-5-2

At the patient's request to avoid all suffering and not to be subjected to unreasonable obstinacy, deep and continuous sedation causing altered consciousness maintained until death, combined with anal…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Inter-company occupational health and prevention services.

Article L4622-8-1

The occupational health and prevention service includes a multi-disciplinary unit for the prevention of occupational deintegration responsible for: 1° Proposing awareness-raising initiatives; 2° Ident…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L114-16

I.-As an exception to law no. 83-634 of 13th July 1983 on the rights and obligations of civil servants, law no. 84-16 of 11th January 1984 on the statutory provisions relating to the State civil servi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: POWERS

Article L3641-1

I. - The Metropole of Lyon automatically exercises, in place of the municipalities located on its territory, the following competencies:1° In terms of economic, social and cultural development and pla…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I-1: Research involving the human person

Article L1541-4

I.-Subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, the provisions of Title II of Book I of this Part are applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column…

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