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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5421-8

…d medicinal products to record the data required to monitor them pursuant to 14° of article L. 5121-20;11° Failure by a company to communicate a prohibition or restriction imposed by the competent aut…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XII: General provisions

Article D591

…e last paragraph of article 116;13° Requests for individual confrontations provided for by Article 120-1 ;14° Requests for expert opinions provided for by Article 156 ;15° Requests to modify the missi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1586 octies

…led within a period of sixty days deducted either under the conditions set out in 1 or 4 of article 201 or 1 of article 202 or on the day of the judgment opening the collective proceedings.By way of e…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article L4211-1

…nder which the Commission des participations et des transferts mentioned in article 25 of order no. 2014-948 of 20 August 2014 relating to the governance and capital transactions of companies with pub…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 AH

…cial owners of such persons, legal arrangements or structures, within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on the prevention of the use o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial penalties

Article L5462-8

…al penalty: 1° The fact, for the manufacturer of a device mentioned in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 or, where applicable, for its…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L561-36

…3-1, the branches of the European UCITS and AIF management companies referred to in Articles L. 532-20-1 and L. 532-21-3, the collective investments mentioned in I of Article L. 214-1, the persons men…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Local bodies

Article R6147-7-2

…en hospitalier et son premier renouvellement, prévu à l'article R. 6152-65 ; 12° to 19° (Repealed) ;20° Avis sur la prolongation d'activité d'un praticien hospitalier, prévu à l'article R. 6152-329 ;…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-27

…able, retained as a result of its analysis.Clarifications concerning the impossibility of certifying20. An item that gives rise to an inability to certify is, by its very nature, a key point of the au…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Scope of application

Article 256 C

…y and Financial Code as well as their members or affiliates mentioned in Articles L. 512-11, L. 512-20, L. 512-55, L. 512-60, L. 512-69 and L. 512-86 of the same code; b) The members of the groups pro…

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