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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Medicinal products initially prescribed in hospitals

Article R5121-88

…of a health establishment, or, subject, in these cases, to his marketing authorisation, his early access authorisation under 1° of II of article L. 5121-12-12-1 or the compassionate access authorisati…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article R2224-18

…ted for the invoicing of water and sanitation by the delegatee of a public water or sanitation service includes the elements necessary for the preparation of invoices, receipts and accounting document…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-15

…is board, each professional employers' organisation has a number of votes proportional to its audience at national and cross-industry level. To assess this audience, the number of companies that are m…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Council of auction houses

Article L321-18

…the economy of the public auction sector; 2° Determining and disseminating good professional practices and formulating recommendations with regard to voluntary sales of furniture by public auction; 3…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medically assisted procreation

Article R2442-1

…rt is applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, as amended by Decrees no. 2006-1660 of 22 December 2006, no. 2008-588 of 19 June 2008, no. 2012-360 of 14 March 2012, no. 2016-273 of 4 March 20…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Investment of sums held in the automatic cinema distribution account

Article 222-10

The investment by distribution companies of the sums registered in their automatic cinema distribution account is subject to the issue of a distribution authorisation. This approval is issued after ve…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Reporting professional misconduct to the competent supervisory authorities and protection of whistleblowers

Article L634-2

The procedure established, pursuant to I of Article 8 of Law 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernisation of economic life, by the persons mentioned…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article R49-37

…9-31 shall respond, in the event of an emergency, within a maximum of eight hours and, in the absence of an emergency, within seven days. In other cases, the reply is sent to the competent department…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Criminal provisions.

Article L7124-25

…1° to 4° of article L. 7124-1 and article L. 7124-2 or their legal representatives with funds in excess of the share set pursuant to the first paragraph of article L. 7124-9 is punishable by a fine o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Transfer of the business assets of the sole trader

Article L526-29

The following shall not apply to the universal transfer of the business assets of a sole trader, any clause to the contrary being deemed unwritten: 1° Article 815-14 of the Civil Code; 2° Article 1699…

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