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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title V: PENALTIES

Article R451-3

Failure to implement procedures for the withdrawal or recall of a foodstuff other than a product of animal origin or a foodstuff containing such a product that is unfit for consumption, within the mea…

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

Article R5126-36

…plicable to requests for the closure of an in-house pharmacy. These requests must include all evidence to show that the existence of an in-house pharmacy is no longer justified and must specify the me…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Classes of insurance and statements to be produced

Article A344-2

…(or free payments) ;2 capitalisation contracts with periodic premiums;3 Individual term life assurance policies (including open groups);4 Other individual single-premium life insurance contracts (or f…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IX: Overseas provisions.

Article D950-1-1

…ing on a regulated market or a multilateral trading facilityD. 22-10-16Decree no. 2020-1742 of 29 December 20203° The provisions of Book IV mentioned in the left-hand column below shall apply in the W…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Accounting obligations applicable to certain traders.

Article L123-25

As an exception to the provisions of the first and third paragraphs of Article L. 123-12, individuals placed by option or by right under the simplified actual tax regime may only record receivables an…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Expiry of the contract term.

Article L1251-34

…e is exposed to ionising radiation and when, at the end of his assignment contract, this exposure exceeds the annual limit value for the duration of the contract, the temporary employment undertaking…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I

Article L4021-2

An order of the ministers responsible for health and social security, and of the minister for defence in the case of professionals in the armed forces health service, defines the priority multiannual…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article L775-18

…order no. 2020-115 of 12 February 2020 L. 524-5 Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009 L. 524-6 Ordinance no. 2020-115 of 12 February 2020 L. 524-7Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Drawing up agreements with third parties

Article R1261-22

…1261-12, a health establishment or a training organisation asks the person in charge of the body reception facility to allow its staff access to the premises or the temporary removal of the body outs…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-1

…not comply with its marketing authorisation, in order to meet the special needs of the patients concerned. It may be established, in the absence of an authorised medicinal product with the same activ…

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