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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Notifications and information

Article L233-9

…ghts attached to them as he sees fit in the absence of specific instructions from the shareholders; 8° Voting rights that that person may exercise freely by virtue of a proxy in the absence of specifi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Processing of criminal records

Article R40-28

I. - Shall have access to all or, by reason of their attributions, part of the data mentioned in

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title II: Investment services, services related to investment services and data communication services

Article D321-1

…n Article L. 229-7 of the Environmental Code without guaranteeing a subscription or purchase amount;8. The service of operating a multilateral trading facility is constituted by managing one or more o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operations.

Article R513-6

…ch take the form of short-term deposits or derivative contracts, the total exposure does not exceed 8% of the nominal outstanding amount of the issuer of obligations foncières and other resources bene…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Procedure for authorising the import and export of elements or products of the human body mentioned in Article R. 1245-1 for therapeutic purposes, as provided for in the first and third paragraphs of II of Article L. 1245-5.

Article R1245-5

…uits de santé the other information mentioned in Annex III to Commission Directive (EU) 2015/566 of 8 April 2015 implementing Directive 2004/23/EC as regards procedures for verifying equivalent standa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article R4462-2

…losure" means the perfectly delimited part of the site where pyrotechnic installations are located; 8° "Site" means any place where one or more installations belonging to one employer are located; 9°…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Redundancies for economic reasons.

Article L321-13

…r more than three months as a job seeker, when recruitment took place after 9 June 1992 and before 28 May 2003;7° bis Termination of the employment contract of an employee who was over the age of fort…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
F: Tax for the management of aquatic environments and flood prevention

Article 1530 bis

…icipal cooperation of which they are members.A compter des impositions établies au titre de l'année 2021, le produit réparti, en 2020, entre les personnes assujetties à la taxe foncière sur les propri…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1e: Taxpayers carrying on their professional activity within the framework of a partnership

Article 151 nonies

…professional activity within the framework of a company whose profits are, pursuant to the articles 8 and 8 ter, subject in his name to income tax in the category of actual agricultural profits, indus…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Tasks and powers of the regional health agencies

Article L1431-2

…ices for people in precarious or excluded situations;g) Under the conditions set out in Article L. 182-2-1-1 of the Social Security Code, they define and implement, in conjunction with the health insu…

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