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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Medical professions

Article R4421-2

…4-802 of 29 July 2004 R. 4127-35 Decree no. 2012-694 of 7 May 2012 R. 4127-36Decree no. 2021-684 of 28 May 2021R. 4127-37 to R. 4127-37-1Decree no. 2016-1066 of 3 August 2016 R. 4127-37-2 Decree no. 2…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Overall operating grant

Article L1613-1

…n 2016, this amount is equal to €33,221,814,000.In 2017, this amount is equal to €30,860,013,000.In 2018, this amount is equal to €26,960,322,000.In 2019, this amount is equal to €26,948,048,000.In 20…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions and general rules

Article D742-2

…1742 of 29 December 2020D. 211-9-5 and D. 211-9-6n° 2017-973 of 9 May 2017D. 211-10 to D. 211-13no. 2018-1226 of 24 December 2018D. 211-15no. 2009-297 of 16 March 2009II. - For the application of I:1°…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions and general rules

Article D743-2

…1742 of 29 December 2020D. 211-9-5 and D. 211-9-6n° 2017-973 of 9 May 2017D. 211-10 to D. 211-13no. 2018-1226 of 24 December 2018D. 211-15no. 2009-297 of 16 March 2009II. - For the application of I:1°…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions and general rules

Article D744-2

…1742 of 29 December 2020D. 211-9-5 and D. 211-9-6n° 2017-973 of 9 May 2017D. 211-10 to D. 211-13no. 2018-1226 of 24 December 2018D. 211-15no. 2009-297 of 16 March 2009II. - For the application of I:1°…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inventions by civil servants and public officials.

Article Annexe art. R611-14-1

…d and non-tenured university teaching staff in general medicine, governed by decree no. 2008-744 of 28 July 2008.Agriculture, fisheries and food. Corps de fonctionnaires:-ingénieurs des ponts, des eau…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L513-26-1

I.-Sociétés de crédit foncier may use the "European covered bond" label for the "obligations foncières" and other senior debt referred to in Article L. 513-2, paragraph 2 of the first paragraph that t…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Compensation for distribution costs

Article 917-10

Where all the invoices submitted with the application have been paid by the recipient company, the direct grant will be paid in a single instalment when the aid is granted.Where only some of the invoi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Cross-border processing

Article L236-50

Cross-border transformation is the operation whereby a société par actions or a société à responsabilité limitée registered in France, without being dissolved or wound up or put into liquidation, tran…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Change of matrimonial property regime by application of a foreign law

Article 1303-3

Where the marriage record is kept by a French authority, the change of matrimonial property regime obtained in application of the foreign law governing the effects of the union is mentioned in the mar…

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