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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Supervision of apprenticeship training leading to a diploma

Article R6261-16

Supervision of the training provided to apprentices in companies to which decree no. 98-247 of 2 April 1998 relating to craft qualifications and the trades and crafts sector applies is carried out by…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Obligations of intermediary payment service providers and cooperation obligations

Article L722-14

…m. The intermediary payment service provider shall apply effective procedures including, where applicable, a posteriori or real-time checks to detect any absence of the following information on the pa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Control consultation and other common provisions

Article R2212-16

Only doctors, midwives, family planning or education centres and health centres that have signed the agreement referred to in article R. 2212-9 may obtain the medicines required to carry out a volunta…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1b: General provisions relating to the hosting of personal health data

Article R1111-8-8

I. - The activity of hosting personal health data referred to in I of Article L. 1111-8 consists of hosting personal health data collected in the course of prevention, diagnosis, care or social and me…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Authorisation

Article R212-10-16

The rector of the academic region may withdraw the authorisation of the training body in the event of failure to comply with any of the obligations set out in articles R. 212-10-11 to R. 212-10-13, af…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Retailers' cooperative societies.

Article L124-16

…es d'achat en commun de commerçants détaillants et leurs unions constituées sous l'empire de la loi n° 49-1070 du 2 août 1949 are deemed to satisfy the provisions of this chapter without the need for…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article D2311-16

I. - Pursuant to article L. 2311-1-2, the mayor or the president of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with its own tax system submits an annual report to the municipal council or…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II ter: Consolidation within a group of the payment of value added tax and similar taxes

Article 1693 ter

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1692, a person liable for value added tax may choose to pay the value added tax and the taxes, contributions and fees declared on the schedule to the decla…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Provision to the establishments mentioned in article L. 3221-4 of the assets allocated to the public service for combating mental illnesses

Article R3221-16

The substitution referred to in articles R. 3221-13 and R. 3221-16 is recorded by the Prefect or the President of the Departmental Council and notified to their co-contractors.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Discipline.

Article L811-16

No one may use the title of court-appointed administrator, outside the mission entrusted to him, by virtue of the second paragraph of article L. 811-2 or the second paragraph of Article L. 811-8 if he…

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