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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Service life and disposal

Article R1333-161

…Sealed radioactive sources that cannot be recycled under current technical and economic conditions may be taken back as a last resort by the Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs.…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 decies A

I.-1. Companies subject to corporation tax or income tax under a real taxation system may make a deduction based on the original value of new assets acquired, excluding finance costs, allocated to the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inventions by civil servants and public officials.

Article R611-14-1

…side scale D, and, above this amount, to 25% of this base. The incentive bonus is paid annually and may be subject to advances during the year. III.-The patent bonus is a lump sum. Its amount is set b…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Approval of professional associations

Article A512-9

…ercised; -for each of the members of the Board of Directors and the legal representatives, bulletin no. 3 of the criminal record less than three months old or an equivalent document issued by a compet…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L212-3-7

…t fifty years of the seventy-year period provided for in 2° of I of article L. 211-4. The performer may not waive this right. However, a phonogram producer who employs fewer than ten people and whose…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Responsibilities.

Article L5211-45

…ipal cooperation draws up and updates a report on inter-municipal cooperation in the department. It may formulate any proposal aimed at strengthening inter-municipal cooperation. To this end, it hears…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Funeral operations

Article R1261-10

…first placed in a closed coffin corresponding to the characteristics prescribed in articles R. 2213-20, R. 2213-25 to R. 2213-27 of the General Local Authorities Code, at the expense and under the res…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Pre-contractual information, commercial practices, contracts and credit

Article L511-7

…empowered to investigate and record infringements or breaches of the provisions: 1° Regulation (EU) 2021/782 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 on rail passengers' rights a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK VII: SPECIAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO MAYOTTE

Article L1711-4

…424-19, L. 1424-22, L. 1424-24 to L. 1424-44, L. 1424-46 et L. 1424-48 to L. 1424-50 shall apply in Mayotte from 1 January 2014, subject to the adaptations provided for in II of this Article.II. - For…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Miscellaneous duties and taxes.

Article 285 octies

I. - Pursuant to Article 79(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the…

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