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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial arrangements

Article R2393-35

When the contract has been awarded by the State and the contractor uses a State department as a subcontractor, the services covered by the subcontract do not give rise to any payment to the contractor…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Provisions specific to partnerships limited by shares

Article L22-10-75

As an exception to article L. 226-8, in companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market, the remuneration of the executive director(s) and the remuneration of the members of the s…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Ic: Combating drug supply shortages

Article L5121-32-1

The provisions of articles L. 5121-29 to L. 5121-32 and of the I of article L. 5121-33 do not apply to the Pharmacie centrale des armées, when the latter holds a marketing authorisation or exploits a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Clearances

Article R4227-9

The staircases extend to the evacuation level to the outside. The walls and steps do not contain cladding materials classified, according to their reaction to fire, in a category lower than that speci…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation to set up within this perimeter

Article A761-13-1

On receipt of the response from the market manager, the prefect will forward a copy to the applicant without delay. If the applicant has not sent him the second part of his application, he will indica…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Name and identification of the medicinal product

Article R5121-2

The name of a 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 company res…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2. Movable and immovable property and rights

Article 150 VE

…rtaking to sell or a synallagmatic undertaking to sell, signed and dated between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2023 at the latest; 2° Completed no later than 31 December of the second year following…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: The automated national registry of judicial procedures and the automated processing system known as "Cassiopée".

Article R15-33-66-7

…vided for in the third paragraph of Article 7 and the second paragraph of Articles 706-25-1 and 706-31 applies;-thirty years when the proceedings relate to an offence to which the limitation period fo…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Taxation of net gains realised on disposals of securities and corporate rights

Article 200 A

…he other bonds or contracts or investments held by the beneficiary of the said income and which, on 31 December of the year preceding the event giving rise to taxation of the income concerned, have no…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-9

The authorisation provided for in article L. 5121-8 is refused if it appears that the assessment of the positive therapeutic effects of the medicinal product or product with regard to the risks to pat…

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