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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Société d'exercice libéral de pharmaciens d'officine.

Article R5125-19-1

…registered. The company is exempt from the publication formalities provided for in articles R. 210-16 et seq. of the French Commercial Code.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article R782-11

…17 of 3 March 2010R. 613-14n° 2021-941 of 15 July 2021R. 613-15n° 2013-978 of 30 October 2013R. 613-16no. 2014-1315 of 3 November 2014R. 613-17n° 2005-1007 of 2 August 2005R. 613-18, with the exceptio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article R783-11

…17 of 3 March 2010R. 613-14n° 2021-941 of 15 July 2021R. 613-15n° 2013-978 of 30 October 2013R. 613-16no. 2014-1315 of 3 November 2014R. 613-17n° 2005-1007 of 2 August 2005R. 613-18, with the exceptio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Accounting obligations applicable to certain traders.

Article L123-25

…Article L. 123-12, individuals placed by option or by right under the simplified actual tax regime may only record receivables and payables at the end of the financial year and not draw up any notes.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41-3

…icable to contraventions. The duration of the deprivation of the driving licence or hunting licence may not exceed three months, the duration of unpaid work may not exceed thirty hours, within a maxim…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IX: The European Company

Article L229-13

…d 2° of Article L. 411-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code or article L. 411-2-1 of the same code, may provide that a shareholder company whose control is modified within the meaning of article L. 23…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for initial applications for clinical trials on medicinal products

Article R1124-8

…eeting at which the Committee for the Protection of Individuals examines the dossier, the Committee may formulate requests for additional information under the conditions set out in Article 7(3) of th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Premium rate telephone number

Article L132-21

…of the obligations relating to the consumer assistance telephone number mentioned in article L. 121-16 is punishable by an administrative fine of up to €3,000 for a natural person and up to €15,000 fo…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Classification procedure.

Article D332-6

Article R. 412-16 of the Forestry Code sets out the rules for camping, driving and parking motorised vehicles or caravans in protection forests as defined inarticle L. 411-1 of the Forestry Code.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Financing.

Article L3253-18

…control and litigation of these contributions are governed by the rules set out in Article L. 5422-16.

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