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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Optional taxable transactions

Article 260 C

The option mentioned in Article 260 B does not apply: 1° Transactions carried out by affiliates of the central body of savings banks and banques populaires, as well as their groupings, between themsel…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Municipal police

Article L2212-2

The purpose of the municipal police is to ensure public order, safety, security and health. It includes in particular: 1° Anything that concerns the safety and convenience of passage in the streets, q…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article L2334-2

The population to be taken into account for the application of this section is that resulting from the census, increased each year by population increases under conditions defined by decree in the Cou…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Operating conditions

Article L6213-2

The following may also practise as medical biologists:1° From the date of entry into force of Ordinance no. 2010-49 of 13 January 2010 on medical biology, a person who fulfils the conditions for pract…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Processing of criminal records

Article R40-26

The following categories of personal data and information may be recorded in this processing operation:1° Concerning defendants:a) Natural persons:- identity (surname, married name, official alias, fo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The status of the sole trader

Article R526-26

I.-For the application of the second paragraph of article L. 526-22, the assets, rights, obligations and securities held by the sole trader, which are useful for the professional activity, are those w…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: General provisions applicable to joint stock companies.

Article L224-2

The share capital must be at least €37,000. The reduction of the share capital to a lower amount may only be decided subject to the condition precedent of a capital increase intended to bring it to an…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Practical procedures and deadlines in the event of unauthorised or incorrectly executed payment transactions

Article L133-24

The payment service user shall report an unauthorised or incorrectly executed payment transaction to his payment service provider without delay and at the latest within thirteen months of the debit da…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Trial period.

Article L1221-24

If the trainee is taken on by the company within three months of the end of the work placement included in the course of study during the final year of the course, the duration of the work placement i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Interruption performed before the end of the fourteenth week of pregnancy.

Article L2212-2

Voluntary termination of a pregnancy can only be carried out by a doctor or a midwife, a medical profession in its own right, wherever they practise. When a midwife performs a surgical abortion, it ma…

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