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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Formation with a public offer other than one of those mentioned in 1° or 2° of Article L. 411-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code or in Article L. 411-2-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code.

Article L225-8-1

…ioned in Article L. 228-1 or money market instruments, within the meaning of Article 4 of Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in financial in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: REVENUE

Article L4331-2-1

…gion and to the territorial collectivity of Corsica, pursuant to I of Article 52 of Finance Act no. 2004-1484 of 30 December 2004 for 2005 and I of l'article 40 de la loi n° 2005-1719 du 30 décembre 2…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 60-2

…e exception of those referred to in d of 2 of Article 9 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 and in 2° of article 80 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to informati…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-31

I.-Without prejudice to the provisions of article 23 of law no. 46-628 of 8 April 1946 on the nationalisation of electricity and gas, local and regional authorities or their public cooperation establi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-2-1

…paragraph of article L. 1321-2. These provisions only apply to abstractions existing on 1st January 2004.The prohibitions, regulations and other effects of the provisions of the previous paragraphs ce…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 17: Conditions for authorisation of individually prepared advanced therapy medicinal products

Article R5121-209

…nal products prepared on an ad hoc basis mean the advanced therapy medicinal products mentioned in 17° of Article L. 5121-1.For the purposes of II of Article L. 4211-9-1, only advanced therapy medicin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-10-2

…f the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC, investigators may obtain disclosure of data stored and processed by telecommunications o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Training for those involved in collective bargaining

Article R2212-3

…ants: a) The annual training plans of the administrations provided for inarticle 6 of decree no. 2007-1470 of 15 October 2007 as amended relating to the lifelong professional training of State civil s…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Income tax

Article 204 C

…e 238-0 A of this Code ;b) To employees who, by application of Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social se…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-37-1

…s made public via the European medicines web-portal established by Article 26 of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004.The holder shall inform the…

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