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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter IV: APPLICATION FOR ASYLUM SUBMITTED IN RESPECT

Article L754-5

With the exception of the cases mentioned in b and c of 2° of Article L. 542-2, the removal decision may not be enforced before the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons h…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Working hours, rest periods and holidays.

Article L3422-5

For the application of article L. 3152-4 in Mayotte : a) The benefits mentioned in 1° are those of the schemes mentioned in articles 23-7 and 23-8 of order no. 2002-411 of 27 March 2002 relating to he…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Verification procedures with the Banque de France.

Article R131-7

The person consulting the file indicates the access code allocated to him. In the case of a proxy, the proxy must indicate his or her own access code and that of the payee of the cheque. The query inc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Disposals, acquisitions and transfers

Article R1333-155

Any acquisition of an ionising radiation source or a batch of radioactive sources in category A, B or C as defined in appendix 13-7 shall give rise to the establishment, by the purchaser, of an acknow…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Funeral homes (R).

Article D2223-83

The technical area comprises at least as many refrigerated compartments as there are display rooms. Each refrigerated compartment enables a temperature of between 0° and 5° C to be maintained at all t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article L612-2

The filing date of the patent application shall be the date on which the applicant has produced documents containing: a) An indication that a patent is applied for; b) Information enabling the applica…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6123-88-1

The "External radiotherapy, brachytherapy" modality comprises the following entries: 1° Entry A providing external radiotherapy treatment for adults; 2° Entry B providing brachytherapy treatment for a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 13: Interventional activity under medical imaging in cardiology

Article R6123-130-3

By way of derogation, the condition mentioned in article R. 6123-130-1 is not required for sites performing exclusively paediatric interventional rhythmology. Authorisation to carry out interventional…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
12° : Tax reduction for certain overseas investments

Article 199 undecies D

I. - 1. The sum of the income tax reductions mentioned in Articles 199 undecies A, 199 undecies B and 199 undecies C and the carryovers of these tax reductions, which may be offset for a taxpayer in r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Registration in the file

Article R50-36

For each person entered in the file, the following personal data is recorded: 1° Information relating to the person him/herself : a) Surname, first name, sex, date and place of birth, nationality or n…

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