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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART ONE

Article Annexe 11-3

…Reference framework Article L. 1181-1 of the present code, resulting from the law of 13 April 2016 aimed at strengthening the fight against the prostitution system and supporting people in prostit…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2b: Companies located in urban tax-free zones - entrepreneurial areas

Article 44 octies A

I. - Taxpayers who, between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2023, create activities in the zones franches urbaines-territoires entrepreneurs defined in the B du 3 de l'article 42 de la loi n° 95-115 of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-79-2

…351-1 of the French Labour Code, by the employee representative body referred to in article L. 2352-16 of the same code or, failing that, by the European Company Committee mentioned in article L. 2353…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Points scale for documentary works

Article 211-11

…points are allocated to the "Authors" sub-group, divided between the following positions:-director: 16 points;-author of the original work, screenplay, adaptation and spoken text: 4 points;-author of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Ie: Transparency and control procedures

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
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to the implementation of a resolution 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

…d approved by the Order of 23 November 2015; 15° The President of the Conseil des Maisons de Vente; 16° The sports agent delegate, reporting to the sports agent commission set up by the delegating spo…

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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

…et du travail, in accordance with paragraph 4 of Article 129 and Article 130 of the same Regulation;16° The obligation to have professional premises in accordance with Article L. 5142-1-3;17° The obli…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VII: Metropolitan France

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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