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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Rates

Article 278 quater

Value added tax is levied at the rate of 10% on supplies of magistral preparations, officinal products and medicines or pharmaceutical products intended for use in human medicine and covered by the ma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Citations and meanings

Article 552

…f an overseas department resides in another overseas department, in an overseas territory, in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon or Mayotte or in mainland France, or if, summoned before a court of a department…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Departmental councils.

Article L4123-15

A Conseil territorial de l'ordre des médecins is constituted in the collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon when the number of doctors practising in this territorial collectivity and fulfilling the c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Antenatal diagnostics: prenatal diagnosis and pre-implantation diagnosis

Article L2441-1

…Title III of Book I of this Part shall apply in New Caledonia and French Polynesia:1° Articles L. 2131-1, L. 2131-1-1, L. 2131-4 and L. 2131-4-1, in the version resulting from Law no. 2021-1017 of 2…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Special provisions applicable to auctioneers, bailiffs, notaries and lawyers

Article R444-54

The right of retention provided for in Article R. 444-15 shall not apply to bailiffs in the cases provided for in c of 3° and 4° of Article

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Election of employee representatives

Article D112-21-1

…national du cinéma et de l'image animée, in accordance with the conditions laid down by Decree no. 2011-595 of 26 May 2011 on the conditions and procedures for implementing electronic Internet voting…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Applicable regime and classification of sources

Article R1333-14

…es and batches of radioactive sources are classified in category A, B, C or D as defined in Annexes 13-7 and 13-8.The person responsible for a nuclear activity shall inform the competent authority res…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personnel.

Article L5323-4

…ependence.The aforementioned employees are subject to articles 25 to 25 octies of law no. 83-634 of 13 July 1983 relating to the rights and obligations of civil servants.Persons who occasionally colla…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article L133-1-1

I. - If the payer's payment service provider is located in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon or Saint-Barthélemy and the payee's payment service provider is located outside France, regardless of the currency u…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L784-8

…621-6 law no. 2003-706 of 1st August 2003 L. 621-7 with the exception of 4° of its IV Law no. 2021-1308 of 8 October 2021 L. 621-7-2 Order no. 2007-544 of 12 April 2007 L. 621-8 to L. 621-8-2, L. 621…

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