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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Collection, preparation and storage of blood, blood components and labile blood products.

Article L1221-8

…accessories governed by Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 and Title II of Book II of Part Five;5° Cellular products for therapeutic purposes referr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-147-1

…he meaning of Article 4 of Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in financial instruments amending Council Directives 85/611/EEC and 93/6/EEC a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Statutory Auditors.

Article L820-3

…ons of Article 6 of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on specific requirements for the statutory audit of public interest entities and repealin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Other powers

Article L785-9

…o. 2020-1142 of 16 September 2020 L. 621-18-4 Law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 L. 621-18-6 law no. 2013-672 of 26 July 2013 L. 621-18-8 with the exception of its second paragraph Order no. 2013-676 of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Supervision of the financial system, cooperation and exchanges of information on national territory

Article L785-12

…le In the wording resulting from L. 631-1 Ordinance no. 2020-115 of 12 February 2020 L. 631-2 Law 2013-672 of 26 July 2013 L. 631-2-1, with the exception of its twentieth paragraph Order no. 2017-484…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Organisation and operation.

Article R711-47

I.-Before 20 April of the year of the renewal of the chambers, an order of the prefect of the region where the headquarters of the regional chamber of commerce and industry is located determines the n…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Distribution of the proceeds of road traffic fines.

Article R2334-11

…en adopted during the calendar year preceding that of the distribution or at the latest before 15th April of the year of the distribution. If these deliberations have been adopted under the aforementi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 42 octies

…1950, the company will have opted, in accordance with the provisions previously in force of article 13 of the latter decree, to maintain the premiums in its favour, the premiums relating to the period…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-12

…nistrative account for the implementation of the provisions set out in articles L. 1424-35, L. 2531-13 et L. 4434-9 and for the settlement of allocations under the Value Added Tax Compensation Fund pr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1872-1

…ts last paragraph, the articles L. 1612-2 to L. 1612-11, l'article L. 1612-12, the articles L. 1612-13 to L. 1612-15, L. 1612-16 to L. 1612-19-1 and the I of Article L. 1612-20 shall apply to the comm…

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