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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 3: Professional liability

Article L211-16

…atter.A professional who sells a travel service mentioned in 2° of I of Article L. 211-1 is automatically liable for the performance of the service provided for in this contract, without prejudice to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Hosting of paper-based personal health data

Article R1111-16

…for Culture under the conditions defined by articles 20-5 to 20-8 and 20-10 to 20-13 of decree no. 79-1037 of 3 December 1979 relating to the competence of public archive services and to cooperation…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VI: Committee on abuse of tax law

Article 1653 D

…ing the Chairman shall be made available to the members of the Committee.No member of the Committee may deliberate on a matter in which he himself or, where applicable, a legal entity within which he…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Monitoring exposure to occupational risk factors

Article L4163-16

I.-Under conditions defined by decree, the management bodies mentioned in article L. 4163-14 of this Code and, for the companies and establishments mentioned in articles L. 722-20 and L. 722-24 of the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transitional measures

Article R351-16

I.-In each currency, the calculation of the adjustment referred to in Article L. 351-4 corresponds to a fraction of the difference between:1° the interest rate determined by the insurance or reinsuran…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Telephone canvassing and commercial prospecting

Article L221-16

…with a view to concluding a contract for the sale of goods or the provision of a service shall indicate at the beginning of the conversation, in a clear, precise and comprehensible manner, his identi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
h: Cash subscriptions to the capital of approved small-scale fishing finance companies

Article 163 duovicies

The amount of sums actually paid for cash subscriptions to the capital of companies mentioned in article 238 bis HO made before 1 January 2009 is deductible from overall net income; this deduction may…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IX: Provisions specific to insurance and reinsurance undertakings covered by the Solvency II regime

Article R322-168

…e company within the meaning of article L. 322-3-2. The Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board may also designate one or more natural persons, who are not mentioned in the previous paragraph, in…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to new building projects

Article R2431-16

…ng that the execution documents and the works in progress comply with the provisions of the studies carried out;2° Ensuring that the documents to be produced by the economic operators responsible for…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Usury rates

Article D314-16

…conducts a survey of euro-denominated loans to collect from credit institutions the data needed to calculate average effective rates. This calculation is based on a simple arithmetic average of the o…

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