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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Maintenance and quality control obligations

Article R5212-22

I.-Local materiovigilance correspondents are responsible for: 1° Forwarding without delay, with the exception of the reports mentioned in b, to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Part-time work.

Article L212-4-4

…greement or an extended collective branch agreement or a company or establishment agreement may reduce the period provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 212-4-3, within which the employee m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section.

Article R6134-2

…they were obtained or in which they come from and who are not undergoing university training in France. They are appointed as associate trainees for a period of six months, renewable once, which may b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Leave

Article R6152-914

…e working days; where the duties are not performed on a full-time basis, this number of days is reduced in proportion to the duration of the activity;2° To leave to reduce working hours, under the con…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
23°: Tax credit for energy transition

Article 200 quater

1. Taxpayers domiciled in France within the meaning of Article 4 B may benefit from an income tax credit in respect of expenses actually incurred for the contribution to the energy transition of the d…

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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 Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Examination of a person's genetic characteristics and identification of a person by genetic fingerprints

Article 16-10

…e examination, and the risks that refusal would entail for the members of his family potentially concerned, in the event that a genetic anomaly is diagnosed which could be responsible for a serious co…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Common provisions.

Article L322-2-1

I.-Approved mutual insurance companies and agricultural mutual insurance and reinsurance funds, which have drawn up duly approved accounts for the last two financial years, may issue bonds, profit par…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reporting of positions

Article L420-16

…the number of long and short positions held by these categories, the changes in these positions since the previous report, the percentage of the total open positions that each category represents and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Status and purpose

Article L513-2

…tions foncières benefiting from the privilege defined in Article L. 513-11 and to raise other resources, for which the contract or the document intended for public information provided for in Regulati…

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