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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligations of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products)

Article R1245-34

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé is responsible for :1° Assigning the code defined in a of 2° of Article R. 1245-31 to the establishments it authorises pursuant…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Provisions applicable to the search for and referencing of plastic, graphic or photographic works of art

Article L136-3

…L. 136-2 is issued in consideration of: 1° The diversity of the members; 2° The professional qualifications of the directors; 3° The human and material resources they propose to implement to ensure th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Judicial police officers of the national gendarmerie

Article R15-33

Officers and judicial police officers belonging to search brigades, territorial brigades organised or not into brigade communities, motorised brigades of the departmental gendarmerie and surveillance…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Mandatory registered shares

Article L212-3

…shares issued in French territory and subject to French law, of sociétés par actions, other than SICAVs, sociétés de placement à prépondérance immobilière à capital variable or sociétés professionnel…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Rehabilitation, re-education and vocational training.

Article L5213-3

Any disabled worker may benefit from rehabilitation, re-education or vocational training. Disabled workers who have been declared unfit in application of article L. 4624-4 or for whom the occupational…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Inter-company savings plan

Article R3333-3

…icle L. 3323-6, the agreement establishing the inter-company savings plan specifies the formula for calculating the special profit-sharing reserve. If the agreement has not adopted the formula provide…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freezing of assets and prohibition on making assets available to third parties

Article L775-37

…eft-hand column of the table below shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In their wording resulting fro…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial assistance and exemptions.

Article L5134-31

…e by the employer in respect of social insurance and family allowances, for the duration of the allocation of the aid for professional integration, without application of the provisions of article L.…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 5: Aid for collective operations

Article 322-26

Aid for collective operations is granted to legal entities that meet the following conditions:1° Be incorporated as a commercial company or association;2° Be established in France;3° Have chairmen, di…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Declaration of sports equipment

Article R312-3

…r of a sports facility must declare it to the Prefect of the département in which the facility is located within three months of it being brought into service. In the case of a space or site developed…

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