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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-41-7

…and, where appropriate, at the request of the Minister for Health, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may, by a reasoned decision setting…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Société d'exercice libéral de pharmaciens d'officine.

Article R5125-15-1

…e competent council of the Ordre des pharmaciens, by any means that provides proof of its date of receipt and within one month of the date on which it occurs, of any change in the situation declared i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Estimated revenue and expenditure and accounts

Article D6162-10

…tion under private law which are specific to them, the provisions of articles D. 6143-39 with the exception of a of 1°, R. 6145-2 to R. 6145-4, R. 6145-6 to R. 6145-11, R. 6145-13 with the exception o…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Technical and accounting rules.

Article R441-24

…ematical provision, on the other hand, has been less than 0.9 for three financial years, the insurance undertaking shall draw up a convergence plan designed to re-establish a ratio of 1 within a perio…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1804

…these products: - to the destruction obligations laid down in Title IV of Book VI of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code in cases where the maximum yield laid down for wines and eaux-de-vie with a pr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Financial provisions.

Article L5212-24

Where there is an inter-municipal syndicate exercising the competence of organising authority for the public distribution of electricity mentioned in article L. 2224-31, the communal share, provided f…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
15° ter : Tax reduction granted for cash subscriptions to the capital of press companies.

Article 199 terdecies-0 C

1. a. Taxpayers domiciled in France for tax purposes, within the meaning of the article 4 B, are entitled to an income tax reduction equal to 30% of payments made up to 31 December 2024 in respect of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Direct taxes and assimilated taxes. Income tax. Corporation tax. Duties and penalties

Article 1668

…ated or newly subject to corporation tax, either by right or by option, are exempt from paying advance payments during their first year of business or their first tax period determined in accordance w…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Provisions relating to the performance of preparations which may present a health risk

Article R5125-33-1

…he second paragraph of article L. 5125-1-1 is requested by the pharmacist holding the dispensary concerned from the Director General of the regional health agency with territorial jurisdiction.Where t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 42 octies

Construction premiums allocated pursuant to article R. 311-1 of the Code de la construction et de l'habitation are not included in the results of the financial year in progress on the date of their pa…

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