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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-12-1

…y the liberty and custody judge in application of this I or articles L. 3211-12, L. 3213-3, L. 3213-8 or L. 3213-9-1 of this Code, when the patient has been kept in full hospitalisation continuously s…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Compulsory sureties covered by the surety guarantee mechanism.

Article D313-26

…e company authorised in France under: 1° Article 1799-1 of the Civil Code, Article 1 of Law no. 71-584 of 16 July 1971, as amended, designed to regulate the retention of guarantees in respect of works…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-112

…sed;5° The name of the prescriber;6° The date of issue;7° The batch number of the medicinal product;8° The words: "medicinal products supplied by... "with an indication of the intermediary who supplie…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 214

…s which is distributed to workers under the conditions provided for in 3° of article 33 of law no. 78-763 of 19 July 1978 on the status of sociétés coopératives de production; 3° (Repealed) ; 4° (Prov…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Exercise of control

Article L612-23-1

…ch Social Security Code, the supplementary occupational retirement funds referred to in Article L. 381-1 of the French Insurance Code, the supplementary occupational retirement mutuals or unions refer…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Supervisory Board, Executive Board and Management Board

Article L6143-7

…s powers to a member of the management team in application of 5° of II of article 25 bis of law no. 83-634 of 13 July 1983 on the rights and obligations of civil servants if he considers that he is in…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article R111-4-5

…re tents; 5° Table tennis tables; > Treadmills 6° Treadmills; 7° Elliptical bikes; > Exercise bikes 8° Exercise bikes; 9° Rowing machines. 9° Rowers; II. II - Manufacturers and importers of the bicycl…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1. Transferable securities, company rights and similar securities

Article 150-0 A

…via a trust, of transferable securities, corporate rights, securities mentioned in 1° of article 118 and to 6° and 7° of l'article 120, rights relating to these values, rights or securities or securi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Scope of protection

Article L342-3

…ntial part of a database;5° The extraction and re-use of a database under the conditions defined in 8° of article L. 122-5; 6° Digital extractions, copies or reproductions of a database, with a view t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Calculation of total distributed income

Article 112

…le.7° The allotment of shares or corporate units made as a result of the capitalisation of reserves;8° The allotment of shares in open-ended investment companies received as part of a split carried ou…

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