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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Medicinal products initially prescribed in hospitals

Article R5121-88

…ons laid down in Book I of Part IV of this Code, as well as in I of article 60 of law no. 99-641 of 27 July 1999 creating universal health cover and who is practising in a public or private health est…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to compensation for personal injury and property damage.

Article A421-1

…is liable in the countries referred to in articles 1 r ( second paragraph) and 1 bis of the law of 27 February 1958 as amended, and that an agreement shall lay down the conditions for the application…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title IX: Provisions applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R391-1

…IV and Titles V, VI and VII. "Article R. 310-4 is applicable as amended by Decree no. 2019-1235 of 27 November 2019 transposing the regulatory provisions of Directive (EU) 2017/828 of 17 May 2017 ame…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Supervision on a consolidated basis by a competent authority of another Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L613-21-2

…ng of Article 4(1)(7) of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019, before taking any decision likely to have a significant effect on their supervisor…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Terms of office of board or committee members

Article L5842-5

…L. 5211-15 are applicable in French Polynesia, in their wording resulting from Law no. 2019-1461 of 27 December 2019 relating to involvement in local life and the proximity of public action, subject t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors

Article R822-26

…nowledgement of receipt and will hear the statutory auditor within two months. The interested party may be assisted by a statutory auditor or a lawyer or represented by a lawyer.In the absence of a le…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Deliberative body of public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax system

Article L5211-6-1

…mplies with the following terms:a) The total number of seats distributed between the municipalities may not exceed by more than 25% the number that would be allocated in application of III and IV of t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Powers and organisation for the protection of copyright and related rights

Article L331-14

…eferrals addressed to the authority under the conditions set out in article L. 331-19. These agents may obtain information from the telecommunications operators and from the public authorities. These…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation.

Article L5216-1

…ration community includes the departmental capital. The demographic threshold of 50,000 inhabitants may also be assessed by taking into account the population as defined in article L. 2334-2, on the d…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES GOVERNED BY ARTICLE 73 OF THE CONSTITUTION AND FOR SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON

Article L591-2

For the application of this book in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, Mayotte and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon: 1° References to the prefect are replaced by references to the representative…

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