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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Local monitoring system for medically assisted procreation

Article R2142-47

…ise the smooth operation of the system; 9° Send the Agence de la biomédecine an annual report by 31 March each year, summarising all the incidents and adverse effects noted during the previous calenda…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Bookkeeping and deposit of funds.

Article R814-30

…le and, where applicable, his branch office or offices. The statutory auditor shall send, before 15 March and 15 September each year, to the regional inspecting magistrate, the coordinating magistrate…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Registration

Article R822-2

…comptabilité et de gestion dans les conditions définies à l'article 50 of decree no. 2012-432 of 30 March 2012; 3° Hold diplomas deemed to be of a level equivalent to those mentioned in 2° by the Mini…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions adapting Book VII.

Article R917-16

…lture, Commerce, Industry, Trades and Crafts of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon provides the Prefect by 31 March at the latest with the list of natural persons and company directors of legal entities registe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Subcontracting of preparations to a pharmaceutical manufacturing establishment

Article R5125-33-3

…and the active substances they contain, is drawn up by the pharmacist holding the dispensary by 31 March of the following year at the latest. At the request of the Director General of the Regional He…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Leave

Article R6152-917

…duly diagnosed condition which, with the exception of the pathologies mentioned in article R. 6152-918, on the list drawn up pursuant toarticle 28 of decree no. 86-442 of 14 March 1986 relating to the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Determination of taxable income

Article 72 B bis

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Criminal penalties

Article L1337-5

…rposes and under conditions other than those provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 1333-18; 6° Continuing to carry out a nuclear activity in breach of an order for the definitive cessation…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: European investment service providers

Article L532-19

…supervise an investment service provider benefiting from the regime provided for in Article L. 532-18-1, the competent authorities of the home country to which it belongs may require its branches est…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Traceability

Article L3512-26

…icle L. 3512-16 ; 3° The content of the declarations referred to in articles L. 3512-17 and L. 3512-18, the procedures for their transmission and updating, the nature of the information that is made p…

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