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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 8: Commission de la coopération intercommunale de la Polynésie française.

Article D5842-6

I. - Article R. 5211-19, with the exception of the second paragraph, a, b and c, Article R. 5211-20, Articles R. 5211-22 to R. 5211-33, Article R. 5211-35, Article R. 5211-36, with the exception of it…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Administrative provisions

Article R4462-36

…arances ; 6° Article R. 4462-20-Distance of workstations from exits or shelters; 7° Article R. 4462-21-Reachability by one or more external staircases or by equivalent devices of buildings where pyrot…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Work permit categories and authorised professional activities

Article R5221-2

The work permit provided for in Article R. 5221-1 is waived for: 1° Nationals of the Member States of the European Union, the other States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1466 A

…pital companies, venture capital mutual funds, specialised professional funds covered by article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code as it read prior to Ordinance No. 2013-676 of 25 July 2013…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-3-8

…en duly notified by the French Anti-Doping Agency of the information provided for in article L. 232-21-1 or by any other organisation that is a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code of a presumed vi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative penalties

Article L6241-1

…ions with a view to establishing a prenatal diagnosis in disregard of the provisions of Article L. 6211-5 or of medical biology examinations constituting an examination of the genetic characteristics…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-10

…be taken from missing persons who are the subject of searches under Article 26 of Law No. 95-73 of 21 January 1995 on security policy and programming and whose death is presumed, collected in places…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable profits and income

Article 238-0 A

…ive for tax purposes, of the conclusions adopted by the Council of the European Union on 5 December 2017, shall be included on the list referred to in 1 for one of the following reasons: 1° They do no…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Automatic and optional exemptions

Article 1635 quater E

…oning of the European Union to de minimis aid. III -For planning permission issued from 1st January 2017, the exemptions adopted by the Lyon metropolitan authority apply simultaneously to the share of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Single subsection: Restricted traffic zones

Article R2213-1-0-1

…The study justifying the creation of a restricted traffic zone as mentioned in III of article L. 2213-4-1 includes a non-technical summary, a description of the initial state of air quality in the a…

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