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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for issuing authorisations

Article R5139-14

…older of an authorisation must send the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, by 15 February each year at the latest, an annual statement of the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title III: Sources of obligations

Article 1100-2

…to which the law attaches legal effects.Obligations arising from a legal fact are governed, as the case may be, by the subtitle relating to extra-contractual liability or the subtitle relating to oth…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Dotation départementale d'équipement des collèges (Departmental grant for secondary school facilities)

Article R3334-17

The share of the departmental equipment grant for collèges allocated to all the departments in each region is determined each year in such a way as to take into account, up to 70%, the capacity of the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Residential and business premises

Article 1496 bis

…tory was, prior to the entry into force of law no. 83-636 du 13 juillet 1983 modifiée portant modification du statut des agglomérations nouvelles, partially included in the area of competence of a com…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The individual retirement savings plan giving rise to membership of a group insurance contract

Article R224-17

The annual report referred to in Article L. 224-37 shall give an account of the following in particular: a) New memberships in the plan, as well as the flow of payments and benefits paid out during th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Groupement de coopération sanitaire (healthcare cooperation group) set up as a healthcare establishment

Article R6133-17

I.-When the Director General of the Regional Health Agency grants authorisation for healthcare activities for the first time to a healthcare cooperation grouping whose constituent agreement he has pre…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Deliberations.

Article L3121-14-1

…of its members in office are present or represented. The second and last paragraphs of Article L. 3121-14 shall apply to the standing committee.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Disclosure of leasing transactions.

Article R313-14

I. - Commercial companies which use leasing transactions to acquire capital goods, equipment or buildings for professional use and which do not benefit from the simplified presentation regime, as prov…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Temporary work.

Article L1255-12

In all the cases provided for in this section, the court may order, as an additional penalty, that the judgment be posted at the expense of the convicted temporary employment agency or user, in accord…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Special regulations concerning certain assets of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-17

…3-3 is constituted by pledging the securities referred to in 1°, 2°, 2° bis, 2° ter, 2° quater, 3°, 4°, 8° and 9° bis of article R. 332-2. These securities are deposited in a pledged account within th…

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