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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Membership and operation of professional associations of banking and payment services intermediaries

Article L519-15

…the tasks referred to in I, under the conditions and subject to the penalties set out in Articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the Criminal Code. This secrecy may not be invoked against the body that keeps th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-151

…erse reactions suspected to be due to a medicinal product or a product mentioned in article R. 5121-150, including cases of overdose, misuse, abuse and medicinal errors as defined in article R. 5121-1…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Equity financing of cinematographic or audiovisual works

Article 238 bis HM

A decree sets out the procedures for applying articles 238 bis HE to 238 bis HL, in particular the procedures for issuing approvals, reporting obligations and, where applicable, the standard clauses o…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to control by the administrative authority

Article R122-14

…ister for the Disabled after receiving the opinion of the commission provided for in article R. 122-15.These measures are taken at the request of legal entities and registered or approved establishmen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Compulsory prior administrative appeal

Article R2333-120-15

…in the table in Annex II to this code.This report is presented to the deliberative assembly before 31 December. It is examined at the first meeting of the deliberative assembly following the submissi…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Advertising procedures for contracts for social services and other specific services

Article R2131-15

Where the purchaser has not published a notice as referred to in Article R. 2131-7, contracts for social services and other specific services mentioned in 3° of Article R. 2123-1, the estimated value…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Payroll tax

Article 231 bis I

…ten or fewer employees is exempt from payroll tax. 2. (Repealed for salaries paid from 1 January 1996). 3. For companies other than those mentioned in 1, as stated in the first paragraph of article L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Conditions for authorising certain research sites

Article R1121-15

…after the authorisation holder has been given the opportunity to present its observations.In urgent cases, the authority that issued the authorisation may suspend it without any prior formality, in wh…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1145

…nt is signed together, by the spouses and their lawyers meeting together for this purpose, in triplicate or, under the same conditions, by electronic signature. Where applicable, the form signed and d…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Conciliation and referral

Article R1454-14

…any procedural exception and even if the defendant does not appear, order: 1° The issue, where applicable, under penalty of a fine, of work certificates, pay slips and any document that the employer i…

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