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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Disciplinary procedure

Article R612-50-1

…Personal data is kept on the AMF's official website in compliance with the rules set out in Act 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on Data Processing, Data Files and Individual Liberties.Where applicable, the r…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Reporting healthcare-associated infections

Article R1413-81

…rticle R. 6111-6, are organised in accordance with the provisions of articles R. 6111-14 to R. 6111-17. In health centres and nursing homes, an internal organisation for collecting and transmitting th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1a: Financing of the insurance allowance

Article D5422-4-3

…n the previous paragraph, the rights of erasure and objection provided for respectively in Articles 17 and 21 of the same Regulation do not apply to this processing.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Issue.

Article D5125-45-1

…nsed by pharmacies, if they appear on the list referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 162-17 of the Social Security Code, and provided that : 1° The persons taking part in the research have…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART FOUR

Article Annexe 41-2

…L INCOME IN EUROS 1st step 2nd step 3rd step 4th step 5th step 0 16 010 12 940 11 430 9 940 8 490 1 17 790 14 370 12 700 11 050 9 420 2 19 580 15 810 13 980 12 160 10 350 3 21 360 17 250 15 240 13 260…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Special provisions relating to the digital exploitation of unavailable books

Article L134-9

As an exception to the provisions of the first three paragraphs of Article L. 324-17, the approved organisations mentioned in Article L. 134-3 use the sums collected for the exploitation of unavailabl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Simplified joint stock companies.

Article L227-18

…hen the company implements a clause introduced pursuant to articles L. 227-14, L. 227-16 and L. 227-17, this price is set by agreement between the parties or, failing that, determined under the condit…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Events and meetings subject to declaration

Article A331-18

The following are exempt from the formality stipulated in 6° of article A. 331-17: 1° Organisers who are members of the relevant delegated sports federation, provided that the event is included in the…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article 711-3

…matographic or audiovisual works, adopted on the basis of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Operation.

Article L2541-4

An exception is made to the rule in the first paragraph of article L. 2121-17 : 1° When, convened a second time to deliberate on the same subject, the number of councillors present is not, this time a…

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