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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R1313-3

…ulouse ;15° L'Ecole nationale vétérinaire, agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation, Nantes-Atlantique ;16° Institut d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agron…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for authorisation

Article A752-4

I. - The summary table of the characteristics of the project, referred to in articles R. 752-16, R. 752-38 and R. 752-44, a model of which is shown in Appendix 7-9 to this book, is completed by the co…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Traditional herbal medicinal products

Article R5121-107-3

…erbal Medicinal Products of the European Medicines Agency for an opinion, as referred to in Article 16h of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Pre-contractual information

Article L224-27

…th the model contractual summary annexed to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2243 of 17 December 2019. Suppliers shall complete this template with the information mentioned above. They sha…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Civil penalties

Article L241-1-1

…uant to Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2017 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consume…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 octies E

…enefit of the provision is subject to compliance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the Eur…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Specific measures

Article L412-9

…meat, sheepmeat and poultrymeat within the meaning of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1337/2013 of 13 December 2013 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VI: Special provisions applicable in the event of transfer, termination or death

Article 202 quater

…rticles 8 and 8 ter or a société d'exercice libéral mentioned in article 2 of law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professions subject to le…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Reduced rate

Article 279-0 bis

…icate, as well as the invoices or notes issued by the companies that carried out the work, until 31 December of the fifth year following the completion of the work. The lessee is jointly and severally…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Common provisions

Article L2224-11-6

…aragraphs of Article L. 332-11-1 of the French town planning code as it stood prior to Law No. 2014-1655 of 29 December 2014 on the rectifying finance act for 2014.

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