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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Recommendations sent to subscribers

Article R331-13

…ned shall be drawn up by the member of the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique designated pursuant to IV of article 4 of law no. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 relating…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Challenging the commission's decision to impose a personal recovery plan without compulsory liquidation

Article R741-13

…very order without compulsory liquidation, a notice of the order is sent for publication in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales (Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Announ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for authorising the apprenticeship programme

Article R1161-13

Only medicinal products which have obtained a marketing authorisation issued by the European Union in application of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 Mar…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5°: Negotiable bonds - Special schemes

Article 131 ter

…same way as French bonds for the application of the withholding tax provided for in 1 of l'article 119 bis et du prélèvement prévu au I de article 125 A. Decrees in the Council of State shall, where…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Management, administrative and executive bodies

Article L323-13

The procedures referred to in Article L. 323-12 provide in particular for the drawing up of an annual individual declaration by each of the members, who are natural persons, of the board of directors,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Administrative, accounting and financial management of the personal training account

Article R6333-13

I.-The cash management procedures and the investment policy implemented by the Caisse des dépôts et consignations in its financial management of the personal training account are set out in the three-…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Territorial professional health communities

Article L1434-13

In order to meet the needs identified as part of the territorial diagnostics referred to in III of article L. 1434-10 and on the basis of the health projects of primary care teams, the health projects…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article L814-13

A decree shall determine the list of procedural documents sent or received by court-appointed administrators, court-appointed agents and persons designated pursuant to the second paragraph of article…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Organisations exempt from administrative approval.

Article R322-132

…d out by the reinsured entity. In particular, these undertakings are exempt from the obligation to set up an establishment fund and a solvency margin. Their articles of association may provide that ra…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Contributions to the account

Article L6323-13

…6321-2, a contribution is made to his account under conditions defined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat and the company pays a sum, the amount of which, set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, may not e…

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