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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial penalties

Article L5462-8

…he public, even on an ancillary basis, failing to make the declaration provided for in Article L. 5221-4;12° Any natural or legal person who, on national territory, sterilises devices referred to in A…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common law provisions.

Article D312-1-1

…ged by the bank when the standing order cannot be executed due to an insufficient available balance;21° Document search charges: the account is debited with charges levied by the bank for searching fo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Economic redundancies in the context of safeguarding, reorganisation or compulsory liquidation.

Article L1233-58

I.-In the event of receivership or compulsory liquidation, the employer, administrator or liquidator, as the case may be, who envisages redundancies, implements a redundancy plan under the conditions…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Regulations

Article L611-1

…ransferred in these undertakings as well as in financial institutions, as defined in article L. 511-21, which directly or indirectly hold effective control over one or more credit institutions or fina…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Turnover taxes and similar miscellaneous taxes

Article 1609 tricies

…ing games marketed through a physical distribution network mentioned in the I of Article 137 of Law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 relating to the growth and transformation of businesses and by persons w…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article L2334-2

…e L. 2334-15 or to the first fraction of the rural solidarity grant provided for in Article L. 2334-21. For communes that meet the five cumulative conditions mentioned in the following six paragraphs,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Access to documents.

Article L8113-5-2

…estigating and establishing the offences constituting illegal employment referred to in Article L. 8211-1, the inspection officers defined by regulation shall have a right of communication enabling th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body with a view to their transfer for scientific use

Article R1243-60

…om whom the biological elements are derived and, depending on the cases provided for in Article L. 1211-2, the procedures for obtaining consent or the procedures for verifying the absence of oppositio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Commencement of employment, management, remuneration and benefits

Article R6153-26

An intern may be placed on leave of absence by the Director General of the university hospital centre to which he is attached in one of the following cases: 1° Accident or serious illness of the inter…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Terms of engagement

Article A823-28

…propriateness of the information provided in this respect in the notes to the financial statements. 21. The statutory auditor shall consult the minutes or records of the meetings held by the deliberat…

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