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Showing 25912600 of 30362 articles for Art. Cass. ass. plén. 24 February 2006 · Cass. com. 20 November 1962 · Cass. 3e civ. 26 September 2012 · Cass. 3e civ. 7 June 2018

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Rights of the holder of the pharmaceutical dossier

Article R1111-20-6

…dre des pharmaciens in accordance with the same procedures as those set out in I of article R. 1111-20-1.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Admissibility of lists of candidates and individual applications

Article D1441-24-3

…borating spouse as far as he/she is concerned. II. - The personal data mentioned in article D. 1441-24-1 relating to the user of the automated processing is kept until the end of the authorisation gra…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4b: Compensation for victims of sodium valproate or its derivatives

Article L1142-24-16

…ragraphs of article L. 1142-15, the second to fourth and penultimate paragraphs of article L. 1142-17, article L. 1142-19 and article L. 1142-20 apply to this offer.Where the victim has not informed t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Rights of the holder of the pharmaceutical dossier

Article R1111-20-4

…ise the right of access to data concerning him or her provided for in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 with the Conseil national de…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 209-0 A

…ch of the undertaking, the company shall spontaneously pay a tax calculated by applying a rate of 0.75% to the tax that would have been paid in application of the second paragraph. 100% per month from…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Agency agreement

Article L132-20-1

I.-The right to authorise the simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged cable retransmission, on national territory, of a work broadcast from national territory or the territory of another Member State o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXVII: Tax credit for research expenditure by industrial, commercial or agricultural companies

Article 244 quater B

…mentioned in a to j of II of this article and the expenditure mentioned in 1 of A of II of article 244 quater B bis.II. - The research expenses giving rise to entitlement to the tax credit are:a) Dep…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Exemptions granted by the Prefect

Article R3132-20-1

…must meet the following criteria:1° Constitute a commercial complex within the meaning ofarticle L. 752-3 of the French Commercial Code , with a total sales area in excess of 20,000 m2 ;2° Have an ann…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXVIII: Tax credit for competitiveness and employment

Article 244 quater C

…pay to their employees assigned to profit-making activities. The organisations mentioned in Article 207 may also benefit from the tax credit mentioned in this paragraph in respect of the remuneration…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Search of the file and direct information to the Ministry of the Interior

Article R53-8-24

I.-Pursuant to the provisions of 3° of Article 706-53-7, may directly query the file, via a secure telecommunications system, based solely on the identity of a person who has applied for recruitment,…

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