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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Exceptional aid to help offset the fall in activity in 2020

Article 919-31

The granting of exceptional aid is subject to the provisions of national framework scheme no. SA.59722 authorised by the European Commission by decisions of 9 December 2020, 20 May 2020 C(2020) 3460 a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions specific to patient care provided in another Member State of the European Union

Article R1111-60

The data subjects of the processing shall receive the information provided for in Article 13(3) of Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions adapting Book IV.

Article L954-3-3

Article L. 441-9 is amended as follows:1° In the second paragraph, the words "within the meaning of 3 of I of l'article 289 du code général des impôts," are deleted;2° In the fourth paragraph , the wo…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The People's Savings Plan.

Article R221-71

The payments made under an insurance contract which are taken into account to assess compliance with the maximum payment limit provided for in article R. 221-68 are made up of the fraction of premiums…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: The issue and purchase on the stock market of shares reserved for employees.

Article L225-187-1

…225-194 and article L. 225-197 remain applicable as they stood prior to the publication of the loi n° 2001-152 du 19 février 2001 sur l'épargne salariale jusqu'à l'expiration d'un délai de cinq ans à…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Funeral operations

Article L2542-25

…f this section will be repealed five years after 9 January 1993, the date of publication of the loi n° 93-23 du 8 janvier 1993 modifiant le titre VI du livre III du code des communes et relative à la…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Public prosecutions and investigations

Article R261-2

…ronic communications operators as well as the legal persons providing services mentioned by the loi n° 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique. "4° Social organisations. "

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Commercial events

Article A762-16

The rights of access and rectification provided for in articles 39 et 40 de la loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés s'exercent auprès de la direction…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Financing of vocational training

Article L6523-1-5

In Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the Social Welfare Fund is responsible for collecting the contributions mentioned in 2° to 4° of I of Article L. 6131-1 and, where applicable, from 1 January 2024, those m…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter V: Consumer mediation assessment and monitoring committee

Article R615-1

…ciations; 5° Two representatives of professional organisations. The provisions of Article 74 of Law n° 2014-873 of 4 August 2014 for real equality between women and men and of décret n° 2015-354 du 27…

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