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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Recommendations sent to subscribers

Article R331-17

…ce imposed on its subscriber by letter delivered against signature.In application of Article L. 331-22, the person whose activity is to offer access to online public communication services shall infor…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 A

…l by the administrative authority, establishments benefiting from the provisions of articles L. 511-22 et L. 511-23 of the Monetary and Financial Code for their transactions with French residents and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Payments.

Article L3332-14

The free shares allocated to employees under the conditions set out in Articles L. 225-197-1 to L. 225-197-3 and L. 22-10-59 of the French Commercial Code, without prejudice to the specific provisions…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions.

Article R642-40

In application of Article L. 642-22-1, transfers of businesses and realisations of assets are publicised by the mandataires de justice by means of a computer service accessible via the internet.Any tr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Expenditure by communes and groups of communes for municipal secondary and special education establishments (R).

Article D2321-14

…e divided between several municipal establishments referred to in article 21-1 of law no. 83-663 of 22 July 1983 relating to the division of powers between communes, départements, regions and the Stat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title Ia: Electronically supervised home detention sentence

Article D49-82

…those provided for by articles R. 57-10 to R. 57-14 and R. 57-16 to R. 57-18 of this Code, and R. 622-1, R. 622-2, R. 622-4, R. 622-6, R. 622-7, R. 622-8, R. 622-11 to R. 622-19 and R. 622-22 et seq.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definition and conditions for carrying out preimplantation diagnosis

Article R2131-25

…biomédecine.The practitioner approved for the retrieval activity mentioned in 1° of Article R. 2131-22-2 may only retrieve the embryo in the light of the certificate establishing the indication for di…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-5

…approval, accompanied by the information and documents listed in Annex I to Decree No. 2016-1139 of 22 August 2016, shall be sent by the head of the laboratory to the public establishment mentioned in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Employment obligation

Article D5212-7

…the amount of the deduction before capping provided for in the first paragraph of Article D. 5212-22.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
18°: Parent companies

Article 145

…s and to the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms, amending Directive 2002/87/EC and repealing Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC, as well as investment firms authorise…

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