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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Professional secrecy, accounting and statutory auditing

Article L526-37

…standards adopted by Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 July 2002 on the application of international accounting standards.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-21

…L. 631-17 and makes the notifications provided for in the second paragraph of II of article L. 631-19. The mandataire judiciaire exercises the functions devolved to the administrator by the second an…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rejection of the application

Article R612-50

…pliance of the description or drawings with the provisions of articles L. 611-17, L. 611-18, L. 611-19 (4°) or L. 612-1, notification shall be given to the applicant. The notification specifies the pr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Maintenance or revocation of title

Article R613-46

…annual fee for maintaining patent applications or patents in force, provided for in Article L. 612-19, is due for each year of the term of the patents. The filing fee covers the first annual instalme…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 879-1

For the application of articles 16 to 19, Mayotte police officers placed at the disposal of the State are assimilated, in accordance with the provisions and under the conditions laid down by these art…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Occupational health

Article R1432-158

The provisions set out in articles R. 4624-19 and R. 4624-20 of the Labour Code are applicable to civil servants, practitioners mentioned in 1° of article L. 6152-1 and public sector contract workers…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Temporary or permanent closure.

Article R5125-30

…or permanent closure of a pharmacy, pursuant to articles L. 4212-8, L. 4223-3, L. 5423-7 or L. 5424-19, the proprietor of the pharmacy shall hand over the prescription book to a pharmacist whom he des…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Decision to implement a decision taken by another Member State of the European Union or by a State with which the Schengen acquis applies

Article L615-1

…ing entry or removal taken by one of the other States party to the convention signed in Schengen on 19 June 1990 and is illegally present in mainland France ;

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Special provisions for public services.

Article L2512-5

…tioned in article L. 2512-1 who are not subject to the provisions of article 1 of law no. 82-889 of 19 October 1982, the absence of service as a result of a concerted cessation of work entails, for ea…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination of applications

Article R3123-20

…ccordance with the provisions of articles R. 3123-1 to R. 3123-8 and articles R. 3123-16 to R. 3123-19 may ask the applicants concerned to complete their application file within an appropriate period…

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