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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organs, tissues and cells removed for therapeutic purposes for others.

Article R1211-14

The clinical selection of donors referred to in article R. 1211-13 is supplemented for any removal or collection of elements and products of the human body for therapeutic purposes by medical biology…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Urban solidarity and social cohesion grant.

Article L2334-16

Benefit from the allocation provided for in article L. 2334-15 :1° The first two-thirds of municipalities with 10,000 inhabitants or more, classified, each year, according to a synthetic index of reso…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Professional premises

Article 1498 bis

…entioned in the same articles the information relating to each of the premises mentioned in article 1498 of which they are tenants on 1st January of the year in which the declaration is filed. The lis…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Advisory Council (R).

Article R2113-16

In the associated communes mentioned in article L. 2113-17 as it stood prior to the loi n° 2010-1563 du 16 décembre 2010 de réforme des collectivités territoriales et dans les communes déléguées menti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Accounting obligations applicable to all traders.

Article L123-14

…ew of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the company. Where the application of an accounting requirement is not sufficient to give the true and fair view referred to in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: House arrest with electronic surveillance

Article 142-12

Investigating and sentencing courts may, as an alternative measure to pre-trial detention, impose house arrest with electronic surveillance in the cases provided for by articles 135-2, 145, 148, 201,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Economic interest groupings under French law.

Article L251-14

…revious paragraph, or if the information given in the reports referred to in the previous paragraph calls for observations on his part, the statutory auditor shall indicate this in a report to the dir…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Intermediary associations.

Article L5132-14

Where the activity of the intermediary association is carried out under the conditions of this sub-section, the following shall not apply: 1° Sanctions relating to temporary work, as provided for in a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 5: Disputes.

Article R123-143

…rticles of association taken by the registrar pursuant to the second paragraph of article R. 123-95 may be contested within fifteen days of its notification. The application shall be sent by registere…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Diseases transmitted by insects

Article R3114-14

…onale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail, set: 1° The specifications specifying the procedures for implementing entomological surveillance, intervention around d…

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