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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The High Council of Statutory Auditors

Article R821-14-19

The High Council is subject to the provisions of ordonnance no. 2015-899 of 23 July 2015 relating to public contracts.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Special provisions applicable to studies of the performance of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1126-14

I.-For the duration of the performance study involving an intervention on the patient which is not justified by the patient's usual care and which exposes the patient to risks and constraints which ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Provision to the establishments mentioned in article L. 3221-4 of the assets allocated to the public service for combating mental illnesses

Article R3221-14

In the event of total or partial decommissioning of the assets made available, the State or, as the case may be, the départements shall recover all their rights and obligations over the decommissioned…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Sampling.

Article R5127-14

A copy of the report or record of sampling shall be sent by its author(s), as appropriate, to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé or to the…

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

Article R1461-14

The processing mentioned in Article R. 1461-11 concerns categories of data from the national health data system which may not exceed the following limits:1° All individual data from the national healt…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Operation

Article L4132-14

Votes are taken by open ballot whenever one-sixth of the members present so request. In the event of a tie, the Chairman shall have the casting vote.Nonetheless, votes on appointments are always taken…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Business property tax

Article 1465 B

…ling under article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code as it stood prior to the ordonnance n° 2013-676 du 25 juillet 2013 modifiant le cadre juridique de la gestion d'actifs, des fonds profes…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Caisses de crédit agricole mutuel.

Article R512-14

Advances and loans to the regional branches of the central body of Crédit Agricole become immediately repayable in the event of a breach of the Articles of Association or amendments to the Articles of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article L228-14

Preference shares may be converted into ordinary shares or into preference shares of another class. In the event of the conversion of preference shares into shares resulting in a capital reduction not…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article R225-142

In the event of a capital reduction motivated by losses, the subscription or purchase price of the shares under option, set prior to this operation, is adjusted by multiplying this price by the ratio…

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