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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-7

Decrees in the Conseil d'Etat shall specify, where necessary:1° The rules of procedure applicable in the event of the penalty provided for in articles L. 5145-3 to L. 5145-5, as well as the methods fo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Information on business papers.

Article R123-237

All registered persons shall indicate on their invoices, order forms, price lists and advertising documents as well as on all correspondence and receipts concerning their activity and signed by them o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Cooperation and exchanges of information for the purposes of supplementary surveillance

Article L633-7-1

Cooperation between authorities, the performance of the duties of the coordinator and, where necessary, appropriate coordination and cooperation with the relevant supervisory authorities of third coun…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1451

Articles 265-2 are suspended, as regards their effects, until the divorce is granted; they may not be enforced, even as between spouses, until the judgment has become res judicata.One of the spouses m…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 1: Temporary residence permit bearing the words "ICT trainee" or "ICT mobile trainee".

Article R*421-52

Silence kept by the prefect on an application for a visa for an internship agreement with a view to obtaining a temporary residence permit bearing the wording "ICT intern" provided for in article L. 4…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 1: Temporary residence permit bearing the words "ICT trainee" or "ICT mobile trainee".

Article R421-53

For the application of the first two paragraphs of article L. 421-31, the establishment or company employing the foreign national who is carrying out an assignment in France shall first notify the for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Hospital practitioners.

Article L6152-4

I.-The following apply to the staff mentioned in 1° to 4° ofArticle L. 6152-1: 1° The following provisions of the General Civil Service Code: a) Article L. 115-7 ; b) Article L. 121-3 ; c) Chapter III…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Prior formalities

Article R2-1

After carrying out the drawing of lots operations provided for in article 261 with a view to drawing up the preparatory list mentioned in article R. 2, the mayor shall send, before 15 April, to the pe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Expenditure

Article R3542-1

For its application in Mayotte, article R. 3321-3 is amended as follows:1° In the first paragraph, the words: "For the application of 8° of Article L. 3332-2" are replaced by the words: "For the appli…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXVII: Tax credit for research expenditure by industrial, commercial or agricultural companies

Article 244 quater B

I. - Industrial, commercial or agricultural businesses taxed on the basis of their actual profits or exempt pursuant to Articles 44 sexies, 44 sexies A, 44 octies A, 44 duodecies, 44 terdecies to 44 s…

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