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French General Tax CodeIn force
7°: Local authorities, local public bodies and local public companies

Article 1042

I. - Subject to the provisions of I of Article 257, real estate acquisitions made out of court and for valuable consideration by communes or syndicates of communes, public land establishments created…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 2: Filing of amending deeds.

Article R123-107

The filing provided for in the first paragraph of article R. 123-105 includes for joint-stock companies and non-trading companies formed by public offering: 1° A copy of the minutes of the general mee…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Subscribing associations.

Article R141-10

The Association's General Meeting adopts the rules of professional conduct to which the members of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee and the Association's salaried staff are bound, as we…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial acts

Article A743-9

…tioned in article A. 743-8 give rise to the collection of the following fees: SERVICE NUMBER (table 2 of article appendix 4-7) SUB-CATEGORY DESIGNATION OF BENEFIT EMOLUMENT 1 Generic Transplant act 1.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Emergency contraception in secondary education establishments and university and inter-university student health services

Article D5134-10-1

…under the following conditions:1° Medicines are issued and administered free of charge to students;2° In the case of medicines for which a doctor's prescription is compulsory, these are prescribed an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 1: Filing of instruments of incorporation.

Article R123-104

…party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area concerned by the last paragraph of Article R. 123-54 shall be filed at the latest at the same time as the application for registration or, where ap…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Addictovigilance

Article R5132-105

An order of the Minister for Health, issued on a proposal from the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and after consultation with the Commissio…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Scope of application

Article 964

…tituted. The following are subject to this tax, when the value of their assets mentioned in article 965 exceeds €1,300,000: 1° Individuals whose tax domicile is in France, in respect of their assets m…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions applicable to lifts and work equipment serving defined levels by means of a passenger compartment.

Article R4323-107

The provisions of this section apply to lifts and work equipment serving defined levels with the aid of a passenger compartment, either along a perfectly defined vertical path in space or along a subs…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions applicable to lifts and work equipment serving defined levels by means of a passenger compartment.

Article R4323-108

…r the purposes of checking and maintaining the lifts and work equipment referred to in Article R. 4323-107 is only authorised to the persons responsible for carrying them out and to those who have rec…

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