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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Removal from a living person.

Article L1231-3

The committee of experts whose intervention is provided for in articles L. 1231-1, L. 1241-3 and L. 1241-4 sits in two panels of five members appointed for three years by order of the Minister for Hea…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Board of Directors.

Article R411-10

The Agency's Board of Directors comprises twenty-three members appointed by order of the Minister for the Economy and Finance and the Minister for Tourism:1° Seven representatives of holiday voucher b…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter I: Provisions specific to Book I

Article L2641-1

For the application of the legislative provisions of Book I to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon:1° In Article L. 2112-4, the words: "of the Member States of the European Union" are replaced by the words: "of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable profits and income

Article 238 bis-0 A

Companies subject to corporation tax on the basis of their actual profits may benefit from a tax reduction equal to 90% of payments made towards the purchase of cultural property having the status of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article 706-3

Any person, including any public official or any member of the armed forces, who has suffered loss as a result of intentional or unintentional acts which have the material nature of an offence may obt…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition; manager approval or authorisation

Article L425-1

…on markets in financial instruments ;5° Wholesale energy products, within the meaning of Article 2(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which must be sett…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-11

The joint fund helps to finance the following activities, which constitute missions of general interest for the employees' trade union organisations and the professional employers' organisations conce…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Donation and use of elements and products of the human body.

Article L1542-8

Title IV of Book II of this Part is applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, with the exception of Articles L. 1242-3, L. 1243-1, L. 1243-2-1, L. 1243-5 to L. 1243-9, L. 1244-1-1, L. 1244-1-2…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Loan guarantees.

Article L4253-2

I. - The provisions of the second, third and fourth paragraphs of Article L. 4253-1 are not applicable to loan guarantees or sureties granted by a region:1° Pour les opérations de construction, d'acqu…

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

Article L5124-6

Any pharmaceutical company exploiting a medicinal product or product subject to the provisions of Chapter I of this Title which takes the decision to suspend or cease marketing thereof or which has kn…

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