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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L441-2

…and of conversion, within limits specified by regulation.III. - Agreements covered by this chapter may not include surrenders, except in the case of the events listed in article L. 132-23. In such ca…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Blood transfusion activities

Article R1222-39

…resence or, failing this, on-call availability is ensured by the staff mentioned in article R. 1222-23.By way of derogation from the previous paragraph and outside working hours, the delivery activity…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 62

…s of applying this Code, Regulation (EU) 2018/1672 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on controls of cash entering or leaving the EU and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1889…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L381-2

I. - A single supplementary occupational pension fund may cover several contracts relating to supplementary occupational pension commitments and may, by way of derogation from the provisions of the Fr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article L225-102

…raph of article L. 225-100 presented by the Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case may be, to the General Meeting gives an annual account of the employees' shareholding in the company…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Penalties and criminal liability

Article L3515-4

…not bear a unique identifier on the packaging unit, in breach of the provisions of Article L. 3512-23; 4° Importing, with a view to selling, distributing or offering free of charge, tobacco products…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Withholding tax on salaries, pensions and annuities free of charge

Article 1671

…way of derogation from the third paragraph of this 2, an employer with fewer than eleven employees may opt, under conditions laid down by decree, for payment no later than the first month of the quar…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Energy

Article L2224-32

…ic cooperation establishments, within the territory of the municipalities that are members of them, may, in addition to the possibilities opened up by the twelfth and thirteenth paragraphs of Article…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Provisions applicable to hunting accidents.

Article R421-24

…report referred to in the 3rd paragraph of article R. 421-15 is that provided for by article R. 421-23.However, the fund will only pay claims where it can be shown that the victim is a French national…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-36

…on due to its classification as a narcotic or the application of the provisions of articles R. 5132-23 or R. 5132-39 ; 3° A medicinal product subject to restricted prescription pursuant to the provisi…

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