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Showing 50715080 of 47464 articles for Art. 3 May 1995

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation and mission

Article D561-33

…t et action contre les circuits financiers clandestins) department, provided for in Article L. 561-23, is attached to the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for the Budget and is responsible fo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General authorisation conditions

Article R4211-32

…ntific and technological establishments, scientific cooperation foundations governed by articles L. 344-11 et seq. of the Research Code, public interest foundations governed by law no. 87-571 of 23 Ju…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Care of prisoners

Article R6111-36

…organisation of care and the medical operation of the care structure referred to in Article R. 6112-30 ;3° The conditions under which detainees have access to the medical equipment located in the heal…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Advance information of employees enabling them to make an offer in the event of the sale of a business in undertakings subject to the obligation to set up a works council

Article L141-30

Information may be provided to employees by any means, specified by regulation, likely to make the date of its receipt by the employees certain. When the information is made by registered letter with…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions applicable to satellite broadcasting, communication on an ancillary online service and simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission

Article L217-3

…em protected by one of the rights defined in this Title.Failing an amicable agreement, the Mediator may propose to the parties the solution he considers appropriate, which the parties shall be deemed…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Multi-territorial exploitation licences for online rights in musical works

Article L325-3

…xploitation of online rights in musical works in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, it may not refuse the mandate to manage such authorisations that another organisation decides to entrus…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: General information

Article L611-3

…duct necessary for obtaining such a medicinal product or a process for manufacturing such a product may, where these are used for the production of a pharmaceutical speciality which is the subject of…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Law applicable to contracts

Article L232-3

Notwithstanding any stipulation to the contrary, the consumer may not be deprived of the protection afforded to him by the provisions adopted by a Member State of the European Union pursuant to Direct…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 octodecies

I. - Taxpayers who exercise an option for the first time for a real tax regime may recognise, free of tax, the capital gains acquired, on the effective date of this option, by the non-depreciable elem…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

Article L142-3

…aring themselves to be minors temporarily or permanently deprived of the protection of their family may be taken, stored and be subject to automated processing under the conditions laid down by Regula…

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