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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award conditions relating to the employee

Article R5123-29

To benefit from partial payment of the early retirement allowance by the State, the employee must meet the following conditions: 1° The employee has personally signed up to the early retirement scheme…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Authorisation for creation, removal, modification or transfer

Article R5126-28

I.-For the establishments, services or organisations mentioned in 1°, 2°, 3° or 4° of article R. 5126-1, with the exception of army hospitals and the Institution nationale des invalides, the applicati…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Automatic and optional exemptions

Article 1635 quater D

…ng are exempt from development tax: 1° Buildings and developments intended for use by a public service or public utility, the list of which is set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. The benefit of the e…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Powers and organisation for the protection of copyright and related rights

Article L331-14

…onseil d'Etat. This authorisation does not exempt the application of the provisions defining the procedures authorising access to secrets protected by law. II. II - In order to carry out the duties se…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-25-1

…ry authority of another Member State of a request to subject a subsidiary having its registered office in that Member State to the rules set out in Articles R. 356-26 and R. 356-27, it shall consult w…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Protected works

Article L112-2

…itions with or without words; 6° Cinematographic works and other works consisting of animated sequences of images, with or without sound, collectively referred to as audiovisual works ; 7° Works of dr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application

Article L137-1

…urposes of Articles L. 137-2 to L. 137-4, a person who provides an online public communication service whose main purpose, or one of whose main purposes, is to store and give the public access to a la…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Medically assisted procreation with third-party donors

Article 342-12

…gether in the order chosen by them, subject to a limit of one surname for each of them. In the absence of a joint declaration to the civil registrar mentioning the choice of the child's name, the chil…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2-1

At the request of the public prosecutor, officers of the judicial police and, on their orders or responsibility, officers of the judicial police and deputy officers of the judicial police mentioned in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Decisions on public action

Article 367

If the accused is exempted from punishment or acquitted, if he is sentenced to a penalty other than a firm custodial sentence, or if he is sentenced to a firm custodial sentence covered by pre-trial d…

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