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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Automated processing of personal data known as "digital criminal records

Article R249-10

…icials and agents responsible for certain judicial police duties, as well as documents appended thereto; 2° Acts carried out by experts and persons required, commissioned by the police or judicial ser…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Submission of applications for planning permission equivalent to a business licence.

Article R752-10

If the application for authorisation to operate a business within the meaning of articles R. 752-4 to R. 752-6 is complete, the commission secretariat shall inform the mayor. In the absence of any inf…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Regional Intervention Fund

Article L1435-10

The national guidelines for the fund are determined by the national steering committee for the regional health agencies.The regional distribution of appropriations is set each year by order of the min…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General conditions relating to voluntary termination of pregnancy outside health establishments

Article R2212-10

…ncy by medication carried out by a doctor or midwife under the agreement mentioned in 1° of article R. 2212-9 are carried out until the end of the seventh week of pregnancy. The doctor or midwife will…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of the budget

Article LO6262-10

…approving the accounts must take place no later than 30 June of the year following the financial year. The administrative account is approved if a majority of votes is not cast against its adoption. W…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Taking account of the national health strategy in Corsica, in the local authorities referred to in Article 73 of the Constitution and in Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article R1411-10

…nnual monitoring and multi-year assessments of the national health strategy provided for in article R. 1411-4 , as well as the monitoring of the state of health of the population, inequalities in heal…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Payment of the subcontractor

Article R2193-10

The threshold provided for in Article L. 2193-10 above which a subcontractor who has been accepted and whose terms of payment have been approved is paid directly by the purchaser is set at 600 euros i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Expertise procedure for medical accidents

Article L1142-10

…expert appraisals, ensuring that this chapter is applied consistently by the regional commissions set up under article L. 1142-5 and evaluating the system as a whole in a report submitted to the Gove…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L121-10

…ed, even as guarantor of premiums due, from the moment he informs the insurer of the alienation by letter, any other durable medium or the means provided for in article L. 113-14. Where there are seve…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Opticians.

Article L4362-10

…tion, opticians may adapt the prescription with the written agreement of the prescribing practitioner. Opticians may adapt initial prescriptions for currently valid corrective lenses when they are ren…

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