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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Medicinal products reserved for hospital use

Article R5121-83

Classification in the category of medicinal products reserved for hospital use has the following effects: 1° Prescription of the medicinal product is reserved : a) To a doctor, dental surgeon or midwi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Medicinal products reserved for hospital use

Article R5121-82

Classification in the category of medicinal products reserved for hospital use may only take place if the restrictions on prescribing, dispensing and administration of the medicinal product are justif…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Common provisions.

Article L322-2

I. - No person may, directly or indirectly, administer or manage a company subject to State control by virtue of article L. 310-1 or article L. 310-1-1, a société de groupe d'assurance defined in arti…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 919-6

The exceptional aid is subject to compliance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the Europea…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Equalisation allowance.

Article L3334-6-1

Departments with a population density of more than 100 inhabitants per square kilometre and an urbanisation rate of more than 65% are considered to be urban departments for the purposes of this articl…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SAINT-BARTHÉLEMY

Article L442-2

For the application of the provisions of this book to Saint-Barthélemy: 1° Access to work for foreign nationals is exercised under the conditions laid down by the legislation and regulations applicabl…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 311-80

Selective financial aid is also awarded to production companies, whether or not they hold an automatic audiovisual production account, for the production of audiovisual works in the following genres:…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Contracts concluded at trade fairs and exhibitions

Article L224-62-1

When a fair, exhibition or other commercial event covered by Chapter II of Title VI of Book VII of the Commercial Code takes place on the territory of a European grouping of territorial cooperation, t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: The Board of Directors and General Management

Article L22-10-6

In companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market, the number of directors elected pursuant to article L. 225-27 may not be more than five nor exceed one-third of the number of o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Statutory auditors.

Article D511-8

The statutory auditors referred to in Article L. 511-38 are appointed by the body of these undertakings responsible for approving the accounts. They are appointed for six financial years. Their term o…

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