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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5124-11

A pharmaceutical establishment exporting a medicinal product must ask the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé to certify that it holds the authorisation referred to in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Employee participation on the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board.

Article L2353-32

…n the management body concerned has been determined under the conditions set out in Article L. 2353-31, the European Company Committee shall ensure that they are allocated in proportion to the number…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Practice of the professions.

Article L4241-9

…erogatives defined in articles L. 4241-1 and L. 4243-1. The "brevet de préparateur" obtained before 31st December 1985, by persons preparing on 1st January 1978 the said "brevet" and by those who bega…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6 : Exceptional aid to compensate for the loss of turnover due to the ban on the sale and consumption of food and drink in cinemas

Article 919-98

…operators of cinematographic entertainment establishments must complete and send electronically, by 31 May 2022 at the latest, the form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article L2511-3

…e arrondissements as they stood on 1 January 1983, the date of publication of the loi n° 82-1169 du 31 décembre 1982 relative à l'organisation administrative de Paris, Marseille, Lyon et des établisse…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable by court order.

Article R237-15

…take the decisions provided for in article L. 237-28 and by the second paragraph of article L. 237-31.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
15° bis : Tax reduction for loans taken out to take over a business

Article 199 terdecies-0 B

…conditions are met:a) The purchaser undertakes to retain the shares in the company taken over until 31 December of the fifth year following the year of acquisition;b) The shares acquired as part of th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Procedure for marketing AIFs in an EU Member State other than France

Article L214-24-2

…untry, in a Member State of the European Union other than France, shall first send the Autorité des marchés financiers a notification file for each AIF concerned.II. - When units or shares of a feeder…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-47

…arket maker shall provide the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the Autorité des marchés financiers with the indicators on a regular basis.For the activities referred to in 2°, the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Temporary exemptions

Article 1395 H

…fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth categories defined in article 18 of the ministerial instruction of 31 December 1908 are exempt from 80% of the property tax on unbuilt properties levied for the benefi…

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