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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Help with professional integration

Article R5134-27

Employers who submit a new application for employability assistance must provide the authority responsible for allocating this assistance with the information required to draw up the report referred t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Duties of the Registrar and appeals

Article R521-26

…r if the Registrar considers that the application does not comply with the requirements of articles R. 521-6, R. 521-7, R. 521-13, R. 521-14 and R. 521-19 to R. 521-21 or that the information declared…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 7: Issue of residence permits

Article R431-22

As an exception to article R. 431-20, when the application for a residence permit is lodged with the prefecture of the Bouches-du-Rhône department, the prefect of this department is competent to issue…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Provisions specific to conditional release

Article R61-34

The dangerousness examination provided for by articles 763-10 and R. 61-11 may replace the expert appraisal provided for by l'article 712-21. The decision to place under mobile electronic surveillance…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Crédit Mutuel.

Article R512-25

…ied to the member concerned. The decision to remove an entity from the list provided for in Article R. 512-21 may be referred within two months by the entity concerned or, where applicable, by the fed…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Election campaign and voting operations

Article R4031-35

…d back-up files and all the personal data recorded on the processing system provided for in Article R. 4031-21 shall be kept under seal, under the supervision of the National Commission. If necessary,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Establishment of criminal record cards

Article R72

For persons born in the overseas territories the records provided for in articles R. 65 and R. 67, paragraph 2, and the notices provided for in articles R. 67, paragraph 1, R. 69 and R. 71, are forwar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Specific procedures

Article R284

At articles R. 50-17, R. 50-20, R. 50-22 and R. 51, summonses, information and decisions are made, as far as the applicant is concerned, in the form of registered letter with acknowledgement of receip…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Rural solidarity grant.

Article R2334-7

The allocation accruing to each commune under the first fraction of the rural solidarity grant provided for in article L. 2334-21 is equal to the product of the population, taken into account within t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to Mayotte

Article R6523-26-6

For its application in Mayotte, article R. 6523-21 of the Labour Code reads as follows: "Art. R. 6523-21 -The Regional Committee for Employment, Vocational Training and Guidance shall set up a bureau…

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