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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Rural solidarity grant.

Article L2334-22-2

…new communes mentioned in article L. 2113-1 created after the promulgation of law no. 2010-1563 of 16 December 2010 on the reform of local authorities, which have 10,000 inhabitants or more and which…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative penalties

Article L6241-2

…ative fine may not exceed : 1° 500,000 euros for the offences mentioned in 1° bis, 3°, 7°, 8°, 15°, 16°, 18°, 19°, 20° and 23° of Article L. 6241-1; 2° Two million euros for the offences mentioned in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions applicable to companies established in France

Article R123-1

…in Article L. 123-32, the list of which is established by the order provided for in Article R. 123-16; 2° Applications for authorisations required for their activity that companies are required to su…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Requirements for experience or work placements in addition to the master's degree referred to in article L. 811-5

Article R811-28-2

…the national registration and disciplinary commission.The provisions of articles R. 811-14, R. 811-16 and R. 811-17 are applicable to the training period referred to in the first paragraph.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article L613-49

…the case may be; 5° The competent authorities, within the meaning of Articles L. 511-21 and L. 532-16, of the Member States of the European Union in which the person referred to in the first paragrap…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Monitoring exposure to occupational risk factors

Article D4163-32

…o occupational risk factors and the completeness of the data declared as referred to in article L. 4163-16, employers are required to send or present to the agents referred to in the second paragraph…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5 : Taxpayers with professional income in different categories

Article 155

I. - 1. When an industrial or commercial business extends its activity to operations whose results fall into the category of agricultural profits or profits from non-commercial professions, these resu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28-3

…e environmental inspector concerned may lodge an appeal with the commission provided for in Article 16-2. The procedure applicable before this commission is that set out in Article 16-3. III.-The envi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L131-1-2

…decree. This article applies to contracts entered into or subscriptions made on or after 1 January 2020. Contracts taken out or subscriptions made on or after 1 January 2022 shall refer to units of a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-1

…investigations into breaches of the provisions of this Title and of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014 of 16 April 2014; 7° It shall impose penalties under the conditions laid down in Chapter IV of this Tit…

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