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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Sales tax

Article 302 septies A

The simplified scheme for declaring turnover taxes is the simplified declaration scheme provided for in article L. 162-1 of the code of taxes on goods and services.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1-1: Competitive entrance examination to become a commercial court clerk

Article A742-3

…ice website, no later than three months before the date of the first test.Application files include:1° A request from the interested party stating that they wish to take part in the competition. The r…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Public body responsible for adult vocational training

Article L5315-1

…blic body contributes to the public employment service mentioned in article L. 5311-1. To this end: 1° It participates in the training and qualification of people who are furthest from employment and…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-19-1

…police or judicial services of foreign States, for the purposes and under the conditions set out : 1° By the Treaty on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly with a view to combati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Groupement de coopération sanitaire de moyens exploiting authorisations held by one or more of its members

Article R6133-15

…e Director General of the Regional Health Agency provided for in Article R. 6133-1-1 also includes: 1° Approval of the agreement setting up the grouping or any amendment thereto; 2° Where applicable,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Specific solidarity allowance.

Article L5423-7

The specific solidarity allowance cannot be combined with the disabled adult allowance mentioned in articles L. 821-1 and L. 821-2 of the social security code once a payment has been made in respect o…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article R612-13

…sentation. The following in particular may also appear as appendices at the end of the description: 1° Short extracts from computer programs presented in the form of listings written in common program…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Reserving contracts for economic operators employing disabled and disadvantaged workers

Article L2113-14

A purchaser may reserve the same contract or the same lot of a contract both for economic operators who meet the conditions of article L. 2113-12 and for those who meet the conditions of article L. 21…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Representativeness criteria.

Article L2121-1

…eness of trade union organisations is determined on the basis of the following cumulative criteria: 1° Respect for republican values; 2° Independence; 3° Financial transparency; 4° A minimum of two ye…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Criminal penalties.

Article L1324-1

…the provisions of Chapters I and II of this Title and of the regulations made for their application:1° The agents mentioned in article L. 1312-1, authorised and sworn for this purpose ;2° The agents m…

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