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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article L775-19

…gust 2013 L. 525-3 and L. 525-4 law no. 2013-100 of 28 January 2013 L. 525-5 Law no. 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 L. 525-6 Order no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 525-6-1, with the exception of 2° of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Financial and accounting provisions.

Article D1142-59-1

…medicinal products, for which the Office is responsible underArticle 67 of Law No. 2008-1330 of 17 December 2008 on the financing of social security for 2009, and the amount of other operating expens…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Information on substances and mixtures

Article R1341-2

…r in Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008.The documents to be supplied are drawn up in French. They must be sent within a period…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Dotation globale de fonctionnement (R).

Article R2563-4-1

…part of the levy on State revenues provided for in III of the article 29 of law no. 2020-1721 of 29 December 2020 on finance for 2021 compensating for the loss of property tax revenue on built-up prop…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-31

…t it benefits from aid granted by the support fund created by article 92 of law no. 2013-1278 of 29 December 2013 on finance for 2014, the Corsican local authority may deduct from this outstanding deb…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Initial risk assessment

Article R4412-97

…nstructed or manufactured before the entry into force of the provisions of decree no. 96-1133 of 24 December 1996 relating to the ban on asbestos, adopted in application of the Labour Code and the Con…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article R4111-15

…rgeon from among the permanent teaching and hospital staff governed by decree no. 2021-1645 of 13th December 2021 relating to the teaching and hospital staff of university hospitals;c) two dental surg…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award conditions relating to the employee

Article R5123-29

…ed fifteen years of assembly-line work within the meaning of c) of article 70-3 of the decree of 29 December 1945 as amended by decree no. 76-404 of 10 May 1976 or work in successive shifts, or have h…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Assistance for employees on part-time work

Article D5122-15

…mount used to calculate the indemnity and allowance provided for in articles D. 5122-13 and R. 5122-18 is determined by relating the amount of the reference monthly remuneration provided for in the pr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 D

The depreciation of buildings and improvements erected on third-party land must be spread over the normal period of use of each item. This provision is not applicable in the case of a construction lea…

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