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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General-purpose investment funds.

Article R214-32-27

I. - A general-purpose investment fund may use techniques and instruments relating to eligible financial securities and money market instruments, and in particular repurchase agreements and similar tr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Rehabilitation, re-education and vocational training.

Article L5213-3

Any disabled worker may benefit from rehabilitation, re-education or vocational training. Disabled workers who have been declared unfit in application of article L. 4624-4 or for whom the occupational…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Allocation of sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-57

Production companies have the option of investing the sums entered in their automatic audiovisual production account for the production and preparation of audiovisual works that belong to one of the f…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: The National Institute of Industrial Property

Article D411-1-3

The public information of the Institut national de la propriété industrielle relating to industrial property titles and the national register of companies may be made available to the public on reques…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Definition of industrial and commercial profits

Article 35

I. - For the purposes of income tax, the profits made by the following natural persons are also deemed to be industrial and commercial profits:1° Persons who, on a regular basis, purchase, in their ow…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1 The Training and Employment Committee

Article A142-11

The permanent Nordic ski section mentioned in article A. 142-8 is made up of the following people:1° The Director General of the Ecole Nationale des Sports de Montagne, Chairman ; 2° A representative…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-section 4 - Automatic processing of personal data for the purpose of establishing the biological profile of athletes referred to in Article L. 230-3

Article R232-41-5

Only the following are authorised to record or modify the data mentioned in article R. 232-41-3:1° For the data mentioned in 1° to 3° of article R. 232-41-3, the agents of the testing department of th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title V: Criminal provisions

Article R353-1

Any person canvassing for banking and financial services as defined in article L. 341-1, with the exception of the cases mentioned in the seventh paragraph of this article, failing to provide the pers…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article D17

When assessing the appropriateness of requesting or ordering the investigations and examinations referred to in Article D. 16, the judicial authorities shall take the utmost account of, in particular:…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Role of the departmental prefect

Article R322-9

The Prefect may issue the operator of the establishment with the necessary formal notices and set a deadline for putting an end to : 1° Failure to comply with health and safety guarantees ; 2° Failure…

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