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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-41

The marketing authorisation holder shall submit to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé any proposed amendment to the labelling or package le…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions.

Article R5141-1-1

The name of a veterinary medicinal product may be either an invented name or a common or scientific name accompanied by a trade mark or the name of the holder of the marketing authorisation or of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Walkman

Article R5463-2

Placing on the market, holding with a view to sale, selling or distributing free of charge a personal music player that does not comply with the conditions laid down in article L. 5232-1 and the regul…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Cosmetic products

Article R5431-2

The making available on the market, by a distributor as defined in e of paragraph 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Composition

Article R2314-1

…ployees Number of members Monthly number of delegation hours Total delegation hours 11 à 24 1 10 10 25 à 49 2 10 20 50 à 74 4 18 72 75 à 99 5 19 95 100 à 124 6 21 126 125 à 149 7 21 147 150 à 174 8 21…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title III: Payment systems and settlement and delivery systems for financial instruments

Article L330-1

…le L. 440-2 ;4° Central securities depositories authorised or recognised pursuant to Articles 16 or 25 of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-2

…the implementation of the sentence adjustment measure decided by the court pursuant to articles 132-25 and 132-26 of the Penal Code. For the implementation of the provisions of this article, the sente…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section 0I ter: Levy on sums paid by insurance and similar organisations in respect of insurance contracts in the event of death

Article 990 I bis

I. - 1. Where they do not fall within the scope of II ter of article 125-0 A or of I ter of article 990 I, sums which, on the day they were deposited with the Caisse des dépôts et consignations, were…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Solidarity fund for municipalities in the Ile-de-France region

Article L2531-13

…nicipality is subject to a levy under this article and benefits from an allocation under article L. 2531-14, the amount of the levy may not exceed that of the allocation. The levy for municipalities t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 300

…appendix to the declaration mentioned in 1 of the same article 287 filed in respect of the month of March or the first quarter of the year following that during which the tax became due; 2° For those…

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