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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Transparency and disclosure requirements

Article R321-14

…5° The list of legal entities that the organisation controls within the meaning of Article L. 233-16 of the French Commercial Code, as well as the amount of capital, the proportion of capital held,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Provisions relating to the implementation of an internal bail-out measure

Article L613-55-5

…plenishment measure should have reached the deposits covered in application of 2° of Article L. 312-16 if they had not benefited from the exclusion mentioned in 1° of I of Article L. 613-55-1, the dep…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Obligations relating to the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing

Article R561-57

…y, as appropriate a) The Director General, the heads of the central departments or the heads of the decentralised departments of the national police force; b) The Prefect of Police or the heads of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Examination of the application.

Article R5141-20

…led under the following conditions by way of derogation from the first paragraph of article R. 5141-16 : 1° Where the application concerns a generic veterinary medicinal product of a reference veterin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-5

…ted market, to comply with the requirements laid down in Article 23 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018;2° The obligation, for the applicant for a marketing authorisation submitted in except…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Legal regime

Article L5217-7

I. - Articles L. 5215-16 to L. 5215-18, L. 5215-21, L. 5215-26 to L. 5215-29, L. 5215-40 and L. 5215-42 are applicable to metropolitan areas. For the application of article L. 5211-17, the majority co…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Public prosecution and investigating authorities

Article A1

…for the preparation, implementation and evaluation of road safety policy, pursuant to Article 3 of Decree no. 75-360 of 15 May 1975 relating to the Interministerial Committee for Road Safety; 13° The…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-14

The standard of professional practice relating to management declarations, approved by the Minister of Justice, is set out below: MANAGEMENT STATEMENTS Introduction 1. As part of the audit of the acco…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R2671-1

…establishments, subject to the powers devolved to this collectivity, in the wording resulting from Decree No. 2018-1075 of 3 December 2018, unless otherwise specified in the table below.APPLICABLE PR…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIII: Income tax deducted at source

Article 204 H

…rate relating to instalment payments made and deductions at source made between 1 September and 31 December.However, in the event that the income tax for the penultimate year or the last year could n…

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