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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Information.

Article L4132-18

At least twelve days before the meeting of the Regional Council, the President shall send the Regional Councillors a report, in whatever form, on each of the matters to be submitted to them. Projects…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1b: General provisions relating to the hosting of personal health data

Article R1111-8-8

I. - The activity of hosting personal health data referred to in I of Article L. 1111-8 consists of hosting personal health data collected in the course of prevention, diagnosis, care or social and me…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Undercover procedures, sound recordings and images of certain places or vehicles

Article D15-1-5

The departments, units and bodies, referred to in Article 706-95-17, that may carry out operations to install the technical devices referred to in l'article 706-96 sont :the national directorate of th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R1245-3

Any entry into or exit from national territory of the products mentioned in Article R. 1245-1, excluding transit, is subject to the affixing on the package of the information defined by order of the M…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Nullity, dissolution and liquidation of the company.

Article R743-73

The liquidator is appointed in accordance with the Articles of Association, except in the two cases provided for in Article R. 743-72, and in the cases provided for in Article R. 743-74. Failing this,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds

Article R2335-16

For the application of article L. 2335-17 : 1° The population, financial potential and demographic strata used for the distribution of the allocation are those calculated, for the same year, for the d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to speeding offences

Article A37-11

Notwithstanding articles A. 37-7 to A. 37-10, the characteristics of the forms used for the contraventions punishable by articles R. 413-14 et R. 413-17 of the Highway Code insofar as they concern exc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Financial assistance provided by the agency on its own behalf

Article R515-9

The Agency's financial aid abroad is allocated in the States of the priority solidarity zone determined by this committee pursuant toarticle 3 of decree no. 98-66 of 4 February 1998 creating the Inter…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 9: Communication to the Agency of information covered by medical or industrial secrecy

Article R1413-35

The person to whom the request is addressed will forward the information requested without delay to the person designated under the conditions set out in the previous article, by means which guarantee…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Health-related products

Article R1453-7

The authority responsible for the single public website shall take the necessary technical measures to ensure the integrity of the site on which it publishes the information mentioned in article R. 14…

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