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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VII: Special provisions applicable to privatisation operations

Article 248 E

…ities, mentioned in Articles 5 and 6 of Law no. 86-912 of 6 August 1986 or the profit participation certificates referred to in amended Article 1 of the same law, appear on the balance sheet of a comp…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal provisions.

Article L3826-3

…n resulting from Law No. 2019-222 of 23 March 2019 on programming 2018-2022 and reform for the justice system.Article L. 3353-4 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the version resulting…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Operating rights

Article L333-1-2

…ion to the Autorité nationale des jeux, which issues this opinion within one month of the date of receipt of this document.The organiser of sports events or competitions may authorise the relevant del…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-22

The enforcement measures provided for in Article L. 412-1 : 1° The provisions of Articles 2, 3, 4, 5 and 13 of Regulation (EC) No 2065/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 November…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-13

…Article R. 1614-11 are set, after consulting the committee for the coordination of regional apprenticeship and continuing vocational training programmes provided for in article 84 of the loi n° 83-8 d…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: National metrology and testing laboratory

Article R823-19

…laboratory is subject to the economic and financial control of the State provided for by the décret n° 53-707 du 9 août 1953 relatif au contrôle de l'Etat dans les entreprises publiques nationales et…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting up a collective shop

Article L125-7

…urt, if the owner of the business can prove that the security held by the creditor has not been reduced by membership of the collective warehouse or that he is offered at least equivalent guarantees.…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Budgetary and accounting provisions

Article D4425-18

…sustainable development of the local authority based on the assessments, documents and reports produced by the Corsican local authority on a voluntary basis or provided for by a legislative or regulat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-8

…authority's sustainable development situation based on the assessments, documents and reports produced by the metropolitan authority.This report includes, with regard to the five sustainable developm…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6123-201

…ment of patients requiring or likely to require an invasive or minimally invasive interventional procedure carried out in an interventional sector, regardless of the approach and the implementation of…

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