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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5124-16

Subject to the provisions ofOrder no. 2014-948 of 20 August 2014 relating to the governance and capital transactions of publicly held companies, "Laboratoire français du fractionnement et des biotechn…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Conditions of practice

Article R743-163

If the file concerns a registration on a principal basis, the clerk of the court now having jurisdiction shall amend the entry provided for in 2° of article R. 123-237.If the file concerns a natural o…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3: Exemptions

Article R313-16

Where the stay is of a humanitarian nature or forms part of a cultural exchange, it must be planned as part of the activities of an organisation carrying out humanitarian or cultural activities. The f…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Candidatures of professional employers' organisations

Article R2152-16

The following must be attached to the declaration of candidacy of a professional employers' organisation wishing to have its representativeness established at national and cross-industry level pursuan…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Regional commission for liberal professions

Article R6154-16

The members of the Regional Commission for Private Practice are appointed for three years by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency. If they lose the capacity in which they were appointed,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: French blood establishment and army blood transfusion centre

Article L1222-16

The following are determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat: 1° The status of the armed forces blood transfusion centre, as well as the conditions for granting, modifying and withdrawing the approval…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: BUDGET AND ACCOUNTS

Article D2311-16

I. - Pursuant to article L. 2311-1-2, the mayor or the president of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with its own tax system submits an annual report to the municipal council or…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article R225-169

If they represent at least one-twentieth of the share capital, shareholders may, in a common interest, instruct, at their own expense, one or more of them to represent them, in order to support, both…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Obligations applicable to instruments reserved for small-value payments

Article L314-16

I. - Where the payment transaction is executed using an instrument referred to in Article L. 133-28, the payment service provider may provide the payer, on paper or on another durable medium, only wit…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1639 A

I. - Subject to the provisions of Article 1639 A bis, local authorities and competent bodies shall notify the tax departments, before 15 April each year, of decisions relating either to the rates or t…

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