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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee.

Article R2573-45

…ants and partly taking into account their expenses.The population criterion is involved in at least 30% of the amount of the non-allocated portion of the fund.The burdens of the communes are assessed…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Communal services.

Article D2573-20

…e income tax" are replaced by the words: "corporate income tax". VI. - Articles R. 2221-24, R. 2221-30 and R. 2221-96 are applicable in their wording prior to decree no. 2019-1472 of 26 December 2019…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-5

…application, together with the information and documents requested, must be submitted no later than 30 June of the calendar year preceding the year for which approval is sought.II-Any application for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Resale of second-hand medical devices

Article R5212-35-4

…t relating to the maintenance of the performance of the medical device mentioned in article R. 5212-30 must be less than six months old; 2° A description of all modifications made to the device since…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article D1432-15

I. - In addition to the representative of the State in the region who chairs it, the Supervisory Board comprises the following members who have the right to vote:1° Three representatives of the State:…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-3

When a territorial authority, a public establishment or a grouping has obtained the benefit of the Value Added Tax Compensation Fund in respect of a capital asset and this asset is used for the purpos…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Classification.

Article D324-4

The body that carried out the classification visit has a period of one month from the date on which the visit to the furnished accommodation was completed to provide the owner or his representative wi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Patent rights

Article L613-4

1. It shall also be prohibited, in the absence of the consent of the owner of the patent, to deliver or offer to deliver, on French territory, to a person other than those entitled to exploit the pate…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Patent rights

Article L613-5

The rights conferred by the patent do not extend: a) To acts performed in a private context and for non-commercial purposes; b) To acts performed on an experimental basis which relate to the subject m…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article L611-18

The human body, at the various stages of its constitution and development, as well as the simple discovery of one of its elements, including the total or partial sequence of a gene, cannot constitute…

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