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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter V: Financial and prudential rules applicable to supplementary occupational pension funds

Article A385-3

Projections according to the three downgraded scenarios mentioned in b of I of Article R. 385-4 are carried out over the same period and using the same assumptions as those provided for in Article A.…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Trust as security

Article 2372-5

Property assigned pursuant to Article 2372-1 may subsequently be assigned to guarantee debts other than those mentioned in the constitutive act provided that the latter expressly so provides. The sett…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Guarantee trusts

Article 2488-5

Property assigned pursuant to Article 2488-1 may subsequently be assigned to guarantee debts other than those mentioned in the constitutive act provided that the latter expressly so provides. The sett…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Share categories

Article L6313-3

The purpose of the training courses referred to in 1° of Article L. 6313-1 is to: 1° To enable any person without a vocational qualification or employment contract to access a job under the best possi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Health centres.

Article L6323-1-3

I.-Health centres are created and managed either by non-profit organisations, or by départements, or by municipalities or their groupings, or by public health establishments, or by legal entities mana…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Creation of accounts.

Article R123-187

A regulation issued by the French Accounting Standards Authority sets out the conditions for determining the useful life, limited or unlimited, of intangible assets. Formation expenses are amortised a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article R53-20

Where it has not been taken in the course of the investigation, enquiry or trial proceedings, the sample shall be taken, on the instructions of the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor and in ac…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article R249-6

The claimant or the public prosecutor may appeal, within ten days of notification, against the decision on the claim for compensation when it emanates from a criminal court ruling at first instance. T…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Financial solidarity of the principal.

Article L8254-2-1

Any person referred to in article L. 8254-1, informed in writing by an agent referred to in article L. 8271-1-2, by an employees' trade union, an employers' trade union or association or a staff repre…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Distribution and supply of labile blood products

Article R1221-20-4

Non-substantial modifications must be declared to the regional health agency. A copy is sent to the Etablissement français du sang or, where applicable, to the Centre de transfusion sanguine des armée…

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