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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 231-22

…e conditions set for each label by the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Specific pollution rooms

Article R4222-15

Specific requirements, adopted pursuant to 3° of Article L. 4111-6, prohibit or restrict, where applicable, the use of recycling for certain categories of substances or categories of premises.

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

Article L2334-22

…operties, the tax effort taken into account for the application of this article and article L. 2334-22-1 is the average tax effort of municipalities belonging to the same demographic group.From 2012,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1st Subsection: General provisions

Article 223 A

…elf, the banks, mutuals and companies mentioned in articles L. 512-11, L. 512-20, L. 512-55, L. 512-60, L. 512-69 and L. 512-86 of the same code subject to corporation tax under the conditions of ordi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Tontines.

Article R322-155

…pany must notify the interested parties of the expiry of the associations in the event of survival; 6° The deadlines for the production of the regulatory documents and evidence in support of the liqui…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 153

…ar by force of law. A witness who fails to appear is liable to the fine provided for in Article 434-15-1 of the Penal Code. The obligation to take an oath and give evidence is not applicable to person…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Contribution on mineral waters

Article 1582

…ese same volumes, under the method for calculating the surcharge on mineral water in force before 1 January 2002.The proceeds of the contribution are paid back to the communes under the conditions pro…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Functional allowances.

Article L2123-22

…ars, were allocated the urban solidarity and social cohesion grant provided for in articles L. 2334-15 to L. 2334-18-4 or municipalities with a population of 5,000 or more which, during at least one o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Permanent access to the national health data system for certain public services

Article R1461-15

…o the State department, establishment or body on the basis of the provisions of III of article L. 1461-3, particularly in the case of matching data from the national health data system with other data…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-22

…he most representative departmental emergency medical transport association mentioned in article R. 6312-20 will call on all the approved medical transport companies in the department and propose a di…

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