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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Compensation for victims

Article L1142-14

…al Infections considers that a healthcare professional, a healthcare institution, a healthcare service or a body mentioned in article L. 1142-1 or a producer of a healthcare product mentioned in artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: The Board of Directors and General Management

Article L22-10-9

…regulated market shall present, in a clear and comprehensible manner, within the corporate governance report referred to in the last paragraph of Article L. 225-37, where applicable, for each corpora…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Deduction of withholding tax and tax credits

Article 199 ter

…her or not they are required to file a tax return for income tax purposes, the sums withheld at source will be refunded, insofar as they cannot be set off against the income tax due to their lower amo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database

Article 706-54

The national automated genetic fingerprint database, placed under the control of a magistrate, is intended to centralise genetic fingerprints from biological traces as well as the genetic fingerprints…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 8: Restructuring of professional branches

Article L2261-32

…r Labour may, in view of the general interest in restructuring professional branches, initiate a procedure to merge the scope of application of the collective agreements of a branch with that of a rel…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: Unit-linked life assurance or capitalisation contracts.

Article R131-1

…rules:1° The outstanding commitments expressed in units of account covered by point 4 of I do not exceed 10% of the total outstanding commitments of the contract;2° The outstanding commitments express…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for admission to the profession.

Article L812-2

…cutor, appoint as a judicial representative a natural person who can demonstrate particular experience or qualifications with regard to the nature of the case and who meets the conditions defined in 1…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Organisation of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-1

…all documents relating thereto, and the examination of oppositions;1° bis. The granting, on the advice of the Minister for Defence, of authorisations for the disclosure and free working of patents for…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Tax on the costs of chambers of commerce and industry

Article 1600

…added tax (cotisation sur la valeur ajoutée des entreprises). It is collected on behalf of CCI France and divided between the regional chambers of commerce and industry, under the conditions set out…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter V: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN FRENCH POLYNESIA

Article L765-2

For the application of this book in French Polynesia: 1° The words: ", the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of Norway or the Swiss Confederation," are deleted; 2° In…

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