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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 9: Compensation for victims of injury resulting from contamination by the hepatitis C virus caused by a transfusion of blood products or an injection of blood-derived medicinal products

Article R1221-78

…licable, any compensation for loss and injury previously awarded in application of Articles L. 1142-15 to L. 1142-21 and L. 3122-1 to L. 3122-6.

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 43 bis

…es in sociétés immobilières conventionnées incorporated after the promulgation of law no. 63-254 of 15 March 1963 may not, under any circumstances, give entitlement to the benefit of the said provisio…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Public buy-out offers and squeeze-out

Article L433-4

I. - The General Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers sets the conditions applicable to the offer and squeeze-out procedures in the following cases:1° When the majority shareholder(s) of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: General provisions

Article L412-1

…fined by Regulation (EU) No 2017/1129 of 14 June 2017 or the General Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers. Where it includes a summary, it must be accompanied, in the cases defined by the…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Exceptional provisions relating to selective distribution aid

Article 919-43

…for the selective structural aid provided for in article 223-25 granted during the years 2022 and 2023, the distribution company must :1° Have distributed at least six cinematographic works over the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Rural solidarity grant.

Article L2334-20

…rural solidarity grant is divided between these three fractions by the Local Finance Committee. In 2023, the share of this variation allocated to the second fraction of the endowment provided for in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Master and feeder UCITS

Article L214-22-5

…an Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall immediately inform the competent authorities of that Member State or State…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2341-4

Purchasers may authorise an economic operator who is in a case of exclusion provided for in this section to participate in a contract for overriding reasons relating to the public interest.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisional prices

Article R2312-13

Purchasers may conclude a defence or security contract at provisional prices only in the following cases:1° When, in the case of complex services or services using a new technique and either of an imp…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-12-1-2

In the absence of the authorisation or compassionate prescribing framework mentioned in article L. 5121-12-1 for the indication in question, a medicinal product may only be prescribed in a manner that…

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