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Showing 75517560 of 8039 articles for Art. CE 29-12-2020 n° 428306

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Publicity of budgets and accounts

Article L4313-2

Appendices to the budget documents include:1° Summary data on the region's financial situation;2° A list of assistance granted by the region in the form of benefits in kind or subsidies. This document…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1243-8

…implementation of new technical equipment, including new medico-technical software used for the traceability of products linked to activities;4° Third parties and the agreements entered into with the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Non-profit-making associations and recognised public interest foundations authorised to make certain loans.

Article R518-61

…Loans may not be granted to companies with more than three employees;3° Loans intended to help finance social integration projects are granted to individuals facing financial difficulties whose abilit…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Agency System Steering Committee

Article R1411-58-1

…o members:1° The Chairman of the Etablissement français du sang ;2° The Director General of the Agence nationale chargée de la sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail ;3…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation to set up within this perimeter

Article A761-14

…of the project on a 1:25,000 map;- the organisation of the project on the plot or plots of land concerned: the locations and areas of the buildings, the spaces for parking vehicles, storing products,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1466 A

…t of a net taxable base set for 2023 at €30,630 and updated each year according to the change in prices. Only establishments with fewer than 150 employees are eligible for this measure.The exemption a…

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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 Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article 706-25-16

I.-Where a person has been sentenced to an unsuspended custodial sentence of five years or more for one or more of the offences referred to in Articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Criminal Code, excluding t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article L5211-21

…the flat-rate tourist tax on their own behalf, and whose deliberation instituting this tax is in force, may oppose the decision mentioned in the first paragraph of this I by a deliberation taken withi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for authorisation.

Article R5121-28

…g authorisation application is compiled under the following conditions: 1° Where the application concerns a generic medicinal product of a reference medicinal product which is or has been authorised f…

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