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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions.

Article R214-208

Notwithstanding I and II of article R. 214-32-29, company mutual funds and employee shareholding open-ended investment companies may hold, without limitation, securities issued by the company or by a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Dotation globale de fonctionnement (R).

Article R2563-4-1

…ceived by the municipality as part of the levy on State revenues provided for in III of the article 29 of law no. 2020-1721 of 29 December 2020 on finance for 2021 compensating for the loss of propert…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions common to the various commercial companies.

Article L239-1

…me; 2° Registered in the assets of a venture capital company mentioned in l'article 1er-1 de la loi n° 85-695 du 11 juillet 1985 portant diverses dispositions d'ordre économique et financier ou d'une…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Transport

Article L4424-20

…ubstituted for the Office des transports de la région de Corse, instituted by article 20 of the loi n° 82-659 du 30 juillet 1982 portant statut particulier de la région de Corse : compétences, dans se…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IX: Taxation of partnerships, joint ventures, public interest groups, limited liability companies, limited liability farms and professional non-trading companies. Option for capital companies

Article 239

1. The companies and groupings mentioned in 3 of article 206 may opt, under conditions which are set by ministerial order, for the system applicable to capital companies. In this case, the income tax…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Conditions for recognising the evidential value of documents containing personal health data created or reproduced in digital form and for destroying documents stored in a form other than digital

Article L1111-26

A digital copy of a document referred to in article L. 1111-25, which meets the conditions of reliability set out in the second paragraph of article 1379 of the Civil Code, has the same evidential val…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: French blood establishment and army blood transfusion centre

Article L1222-8

The revenues of the Etablissement Français du Sang are made up of : 1° Income from activities relating to labile blood products ; 1° bis Income from activities relating to the supply of plasma for tra…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-2-1

When one or more local authorities are supplied with water intended for human consumption by abstraction works owned by private individuals and not covered by a public service delegation, the State re…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-27

A decision to revoke a patent has absolute effect subject to third party opposition. In respect of patents applied for before 1 January 1969, the revocation shall apply to the parts of the patent dete…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Safety

Article L452-1

Exporting to a country outside the European Union a foodstuff that is injurious to health or an animal feed that is dangerous, in disregard of the provisions of Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 178/20…

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