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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Veterinary medicinal products

Article L1453-2

…nts intending to become veterinary surgeons or pharmacists, and the associations representing them; 3° Higher education establishments training veterinary surgeons; 4° Higher education establishments…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
32°: Tax credit for students to finance their higher education

Article 200 terdecies

…ng the period in which the loan subscriber was attached to another tax household pursuant to 2° and 3° of 3 of the article 6 are entitled to the tax credit in the year from which that person becomes a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIII: Income tax deducted at source

Article 204 M

1. The tax rate for the tax household is, at the taxpayer's option, individualised in accordance with the procedures set out in 2 and 3 of this article for each of the spouses or partners bound by a c…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IX: Taxation of partnerships, joint ventures, public interest groups, limited liability companies, limited liability farms and professional non-trading companies. Option for capital companies

Article 239

1. The companies and groupings mentioned in 3 of article 206 may opt, under conditions which are set by ministerial order, for the system applicable to capital companies. In this case, the income tax…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article R132-5-7

…cting party has irrevocably opted for the delivery of securities, units or shares pursuant to 2° or 3° of article L. 131-1, and has expressly stated in the contract that this option does not apply to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article D214-80-2

…um percentage, defined before the fund is set up, is identical for all subscribers to the same fund;3° The amount of the entry fee actually deducted at the time of subscription;4° The maximum number o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tasks

Article R1418-1-1

…c stem cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells; 2° The file relating to placental blood units; 3° The file relating to patients awaiting a haematopoietic stem cell transplant in France or abroad.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Judicial police officers

Article 21

…veillance officers ; 1° quinquies (Repealed); 1° sexies (Repealed); 2° Agents de police municipale; 3° Gardes champêtres, when they are acting in the exercise of the powers set out in the penultimate…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General privileges

Article 2331

…ition that they have benefited the creditor against whom the lien is asserted; 2° Funeral expenses; 3° The following remuneration and allowances:the remuneration, for the last six months, of employees…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Duration of protection

Article L123-6

During the period provided for in article L. 123-1, the surviving spouse, against whom there is no final judgment of legal separation, benefits, regardless of the matrimonial regime and independently…

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