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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Société d'exercice libéral de pharmaciens d'officine.

Article R5125-18-1

2° of I of article 6 of law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professions subject to a legislative or regulatory status or whose title is pro…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section XIIa: Taxes levied for the benefit of communities of communes and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation

Article 1609 quinquies C

…n of the proceeds of these taxes. I bis. - I is applicable to communities of communes which, before 31 December 2010, have opted, pursuant to the first sentence of the first paragraph of II in the wor…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 6: Financial guarantee.

Article R211-28

…y available to ensure the repatriation of passengers under the conditions set out in article R. 211-31. For the application of the provisions of this article, credit institutions established in the Pr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Ac: Record-keeping

Article 286 quinquies

…available to the administration, at its request, by electronic means. It is kept for ten years from 31 December of the year in which the operation was carried out.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Purpose and award conditions

Article 631-2

…f the Treaty, in particular those provided for in Chapter I and Articles 17, 18, 19, 25, 28, 29 and 31 or, where applicable, Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the applicat…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter V: Provisions relating to financial assistance for the promotion of audiovisual works abroad

Article 915-2

…rks abroad submitted to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée between 20 July 2020 and 31 December 2021, in addition to the expenses mentioned in article 722-19, this aid also helps to co…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section 0VII bis: Special equipment taxes levied for the benefit of public establishments. Exemption for certain agricultural land

Article 1607 A

…fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth categories defined in article 18 of the ministerial instruction of 31 December 1908 and not exempt pursuant to articles 1395 to 1395 B are exempt from the special equi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article L2573-38

I. - The articles L. 2311-1 to L. 2311-7 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II.Article L. 2311-1-1 is applicable to the communes of French Po…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L6161-5

…d by the legal entities under private law mentioned in 1° of II of Article 1 of Law No. 2014-856 of 31 July 2014 on the social and solidarity economy meeting the conditions and having obtained the aut…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-19

…efect notifies the Minister for Health, by 30 April at the latest or, for the overseas departments, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin, by 31 August at the latest, of the list of waters identi…

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