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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Salary

Article D6222-30

When an apprenticeship contract is concluded for a period of less than or equal to one year to prepare for a diploma or qualification at the same level as that previously obtained, when the new qualif…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Information to be provided to the public

Article R385-19

…ance and Reinsurance (Solvency II), in the version in force on the date of publication of Decree No 2017-1171 of 18 July 2017 laying down the rules applicable to supplementary occupational pension fun…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Development grant.

Article L2334-18-2

…qual to one, increased by the ratio between twice the population of sensitive urban areas and, from 2017, priority neighbourhoods of the city policy and the total population of the municipality, and t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L3121-2-2

…ssories intended to perform self-diagnostics, as defined in point 5 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017, for the detection of transmi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article L613-31

…organisation and liquidation of credit institutions and investment firms set out in articles L. 613-25 to L. 613-30 and L. 211-10 do not apply to legal proceedings opened before 29 June 1999.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Institutions and services authorised to carry out banking transactions

Article L775-12

Article L. 518-1, in the version resulting fromOrder no. 2010-420 of 27 April 2010, is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands subject to the deletion of all references to the words: "la Poste, un…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for authorisation.

Article R5121-27

…upport of the application for authorisation of the medicinal products mentioned in articles R. 5121-25 and R. 5121-26 are considered to contain all the necessary and sufficient data for the evaluation…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Common rules governing the practice of the profession

Article R4323-2-3

Articles R. 4311-105 and R. 4311-106 are applicable to masseur-physiotherapists and chiropodists, subject to the following adaptations: 1° In the first paragraph of Article R. 4311-105, the words: "Ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Health protection.

Article L1521-2

…es L. 1111-5-1, L. 1111-8-2 are applicable to Wallis and Futuna in their wording resulting from law no. 2016-41 of 26 January 2016.Articles L. 1111-2, L. 1111-4, L. 1111-6 and L. 1111-11 are applicabl…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Calculation of tax

Article 200 A

…II of this chapter, with the exception of income expressly exempted from tax by virtue of articles 125-0 A, 155 B, 157 and 163 quinquies B to 163 quinquies C bis, income from capitalisation bonds or c…

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