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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Industrial preparation and wholesale.

Article L5142-1-5

…advertising operations referred to in Articles 119 and 120 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018 shall declare to the Director General of the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Financial sector advisory committees

Article L784-5

…of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 614-1 and L. 614-2 law no. 2018-699 of 3 August 2018 L. 614-3law no. 2003-706 of 1 August 2003 II.-For the application of the a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Financial sector advisory committees

Article L783-5

…f the same table: Applicable articles In their wording resulting from L. 614-1 and L. 614-2 Law no. 2018-699 of 3 August 2018 L. 614-3Law no. 2003-706 of 1 August 2003 II.-For the application of the a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Industrial preparation and wholesale.

Article L5142-7-1

…l product under the conditions provided for in Article 102 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018 is subject to authorisation by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitai…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Extemporaneous preparation and retail sale.

Article L5442-10

…farm management in disregard of paragraph 1 of Article 107 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products and paragraph 3 of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2019/4 of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Compensation for victims

Article L1142-23

…ion pursuant to Article L. 1221-14; 3° ter The payment of compensation pursuant to articles L. 1142-24-7, L. 1142-24-16 and L. 1142-24-17 ; 4° The payment of the compensation provided for in article L…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6: Payroll tax

Article 1679 A

…The result obtained is rounded, if necessary, to the nearest euro.A mutual insurer which, between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2018, establishes that it has exceeded the staffing threshold referred…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article L2336-1

…780 million euros respectively. In 2016 and 2017, the fund's resources are set at €1 billion. From 2018, the fund's resources are set at €1 billion.2. The tax resources referred to in 1 correspond, f…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Water and sanitation

Article L2564-17

For the application to Mayotte of Article L. 2224-8 : 1° In the second paragraph of I, the reference to the year 2013 is replaced by the reference to the year 2015; 2° In the fifth paragraph of III, t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Staff reports and monitoring of the judicial activities of judicial police officers (Provisions adopted for the application of articles 13, 16, 19-1, 224 to 230 and R. 14 to R. 15-6 of the Code of Criminal Procedure)

Article D44-5

…emporary unavailability of the magistrate whose duties are defined in articles 230-9,230-14 and 230-24, these are exercised by the senior prosecuting magistrate who is a member of the committee provid…

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