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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Direct referral to the Commission nationale d'aménagement commercial (National Commission for Commercial Development)

Article R752-43-7

The provisions of article R. 752-36 are applicable. In the event that the matter has previously been referred to the National Commission by third parties, the latter shall have two months from notific…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 17: Nuclear medicine

Article D6124-186

…A room dedicated to examinations carried out after the administration of radiopharmaceutical drugs; 4° A room for the preparation and reconstitution of radiopharmaceutical drugs for "A" sites that do…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: The issue and purchase on the stock market of shares reserved for employees.

Article L225-187-1

Articles L. 225-192 to L. 225-194 and article L. 225-197 remain applicable as they stood prior to the publication of the loi n° 2001-152 du 19 février 2001 sur l'épargne salariale jusqu'à l'expiration…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 157

…r on one of the lists drawn up by the Courts of Appeal under the conditions provided for by the loi n° 71-498 du 29 juin 1971 relative aux experts judiciaires. Exceptionally, the courts may, by reason…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Precipitation.

Article 1518

When the community is dissolved during the lifetime of the spouses, there is no need to issue the precipitate; but the spouse in whose favour it has been stipulated retains his rights for the event of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Precipitation.

Article 1515

It may be agreed in the marriage contract that the survivor of the spouses, or one of them if he or she survives, shall be entitled to take from the community, before any partition, either a certain s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Precipitation.

Article 1519

Community creditors always have the right to have the effects included in the preciput sold, except for the spouse's recourse to the remainder of the community.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Precipitation.

Article 1516

The preciput is not regarded as a gift, either in substance or in form, but as a marriage agreement and between partners.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Provisions common to both parts of Chapter II.

Article 1527

…ent that would result in one of the spouses receiving more than the portion regulated by Article 1094-1, under the heading "Gifts inter vivos and wills", shall be ineffective in respect of the whole e…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1840 I

Any fraud or attempted fraud and, in general, any manoeuvre with the aim or having the result of defrauding or compromising the tax, committed in the use of stamping machines is punishable by the pena…

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