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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable to elected employees

Article R7227-18

An assembly councillor or executive councillor who is an employee must, when he wishes to benefit from the training leave referred to in article L. 7227-13, submit his request in writing to his employ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Organisation and operation

Article R6123-3-9

…ommittee. It guides and monitors the work of the planned commissions mentioned in article R. 6123-3-13.It is responsible for consultation between the State, the region and the professional organisatio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Freedom to provide services

Article D532-23-2

…de in the host State and whether it plans to do so using tied agents established in its home State, as well as the identity of these tied agents.Such notifications shall be made under the conditions s…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Principles and terms of pawnbroking.

Article D514-9

…ting or on another durable medium.II. - The deed formalising the agreement of the borrower and the cashier to the loan shall be drawn up in type no smaller than eight-point type. It must state the fol…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Nature and conditions of exemptions

Article R1453-14

…ay be specified by an agreement concluded between one or more national councils of the professional associations concerned and one or more organisations representing the persons concerned, shall speci…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Capital increases

Article L22-10-52

As an exception to the second paragraph of article L. 225-136, for companies whose equity securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market and insofar as the equity securities to be issued imm…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Measures to combat specific risks

Article L3135-2

…an in vitro diagnostic medical device or its accessory under the conditions set out in article L. 3135-1. The manufacturer of a medicinal product, a medical device or its accessory or an in vitro dia…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 12: Notice

Article R5121-148

…on the outer packaging or the immediate packaging. It must be written in French, in terms that are easy for the user to understand and sufficiently legible, taking into account the results of consulta…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-126

…nal products with the same qualitative and quantitative composition, in terms of active substances, as medicinal products authorised in France; 4° Comply with the other prescription and dispensing rul…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Moral rights

Article L121-9

…pouse or of the spouse to whom such rights have been transmitted. This right may not be contributed as a dowry, nor acquired by the community or by a partnership of acquests. Pecuniary proceeds from t…

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