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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Professional Equality Commission

Article L2315-56

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in article L. 2315-45, in companies with at least three hundred employees, a professional equality commission is set up within the social and economic co…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable persons

Article 5

…franchis de l'impôt sur le revenu : 1° (Provision obsolete) ; 2° (Abrogated) ; 2° bis (Abrogated) ; 3° Ambassadors and diplomatic agents, consuls and consular agents of foreign nationality, but only t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to practice within internal-use pharmacies

Article R5126-5

…e European Union or another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who: 1° On 1 June 2017, provides evidence of practice in a structure equivalent to an in-house-use pharmacy in on…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Research on the human embryo, human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells

Article L2163-5

As stated in Article 511-18-1 of the French Criminal Code, reproduced below: Art. 511-18-1 -The cloning of human embryos for therapeutic purposes is punishable by seven years' imprisonment and a fine…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body for their own research programmes

Article R1243-56

…nd or prohibit the pursuit of activities that no longer meet the requirements set out in Article L. 1243-3. When the organisation is a health establishment, the decision to suspend or prohibit is take…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 59 quinquies

…exception of those which they have collected or exchanged pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid down in Articles 81…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article R645-5

I.-The court clerk shall attach to the copy of the judgment referred to in Article R. 645-4 a document reproducing the terms of II of this article, as well as: 1° Those of articles L. 645-4, L. 812-2,…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 3: Conditions for payment and repayment of financial aid

Article 121-3

The receipt and payment of financial aid are subject to compliance with the conditions under which it is awarded and compliance with the conditions for carrying out the project or the expenditure cove…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Responsibilities.

Article L2353-5

When exceptional circumstances arise which considerably affect the interests of the employees, in particular in the event of relocation, closure of an undertaking or establishment or collective redund…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Scope of collective bargaining

Article L3121-51

…eek to another when a system of individualised working hours is set up in application of Article L. 3121-48 ; 2° Set the procedures for recovering hours lost in the cases provided for in article L. 31…

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