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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Presentation and determination of the statement of estimates of revenue and expenditure

Article R6145-11

The budget meets the following conditions: 1° Each of the projected profit and loss accounts is presented in balance; however, the main projected profit and loss account and the projected profit and l…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IX: Overseas provisions.

Article L950-1

…lowing chapters, the following provisions of this Code shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands:1° Book I, with the exception of Articles L. 123-29 to L. 123-31, L. 124-1 to L. 126-1, L. 135-1 to…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Rules applicable to contracting authorities

Article R2161-15

The minimum period laid down in Article R. 2161-14 may be reduced: 1° To ten days if the contracting authority has published a prior information notice that has not been used as a call for tenders and…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and terms of allocation

Article 919-112

Exceptional grants are awarded and their amount is determined taking into account :1° The financial difficulties encountered by the foreign sales company in 2020 and 2021;2° The quality of the promoti…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for approval of practitioners

Article R1131-10

…is subject to assessment of the practitioner's activity, in accordance with the following criteria: 1° Participation by the practitioner in continuing education in the field of genetic characteristics…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Powers of the overseas regions in relation to economic development and regional planning

Article L4433-10-7

…e provisions of the regional development plan may only be declared to be in the public interest if: 1° The public enquiry, carried out in accordance with Chapter III of Title II of Book I of the Envir…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Commission de conciliation et d'indemnisation des accidents médicaux, des affections iatrogènes et des infections nosocomiales.

Article R1142-10

…established by order of the Minister for Health, which define the conditions under which it operates. These rules specify the procedures for organising work and preparing opinions, the division of ta…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Monitoring compliance with obligations and penalties

Article R561-41-1

The report referred to in V of Article L. 561-36 shall contain the following information: 1° The sanctions that the supervisory authorities referred to in this V impose on the persons referred to in A…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions of secondment.

Article L1262-2-2

The conditions under which the employers referred to in articles L. 1262-1 and L. 1262-2 are required to transmit, by electronic means, the declaration referred to in I of article L. 1262-2-1 of this…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Health checks and surveillance

Article R1321-15-1

…the Minister for Health. If these values are not complied with under the conditions provided for in 1° of article R. 1321-5, the person responsible for producing or distributing the water implements t…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
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