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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 17: Conditions for authorisation of individually prepared advanced therapy medicinal products

Article R5121-210

…applied and the results of the risk analysis;3° Where the standards referred to in Article R. 5211-18 are not applied in full, a description of the solutions adopted to meet the essential requirement…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 quinquies GC

…ions of this article apply to the determination of income for financial years ending on or after 31 December 1998.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to sanitation

Article L2224-8

…out the inspection of non-collective sanitation installations; they carry out this inspection by 31 December 2012 at the latest, and then at intervals that may not exceed ten years.They may ensure, wi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Exempt assets

Article 976

…Fishing Code and those leased on a transferable basis under the conditions set out in articles L. 418-1 à L. 418-5 of the same code are exempt provided, on the one hand, that the term of the lease is…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation

Article L5217-1

…à fiscalité propre with more than 250,000 inhabitants or including within their perimeter, as at 31 December 2015, the regional capital, centres of an employment area with more than 500,000 inhabitant…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Scope of application

Article R1333-106

…de;2° The criteria mentioned in e of point 3 of Annex VII of Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom of 5 December 2013 are met.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Administration and control

Article D1524-7

…breaches of probity implemented by the company as part of the article 17 of Act no. 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernisation of economic activi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Provisions common to inheritances and gifts

Article 787 B

…s, entre vifs ou, en pleine propriété, à un fonds de pérennité mentionné à l'article 177 of law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 relating to the growth and transformation of businesses if the following con…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions on the valuation of prudential technical provisions

Article R351-2

…lation (EU) No 2015/35 of 10 October 2014. The boundaries of these contracts are defined in Article 18 of the same Regulation. The requirements for data quality and the conditions under which approxim…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Issuance of Bulletin No. 2 of the Criminal Record

Article R79

…or the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons and the National Court for the Right of Asylum; 18° To the public administrations of the State responsible for investigating procedures for change o…

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