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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Composition and management of the plan.

Article R3332-21-4

Securities issued by socially responsible companies include equity securities, bonds, promissory notes, savings bonds, current account advances, equity securities and equity loans issued or granted by…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Supervision, inspection and discipline.

Article R812-23-1

The government commissioner at the Commission nationale d'inscription et de discipline des administrateurs judiciaires et des mandataires judiciaires ensures that disciplinary sanctions are enforced.H…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Employee savings funds.

Article D214-207-1

Article D. 214-32-31 does not apply to AIFs covered by this sub-section.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Direct allocations based on the production conditions of cinematographic works

Article 222-15

…total amount of direct allocations granted to a single distribution company in the course of a year may not exceed €125,000.For cinematographic works whose production cost is equal to or greater than…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Payroll tax

Article 231 bis N

…m an employment support contract or a contract for the future defined respectively in articles L. 5134-20 and L. 5134-35 of the Labour Code is exempt from payroll tax.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-20-1

…investigating judge, seals and samples relating to the traces and samples mentioned in 1°, 1° bis, 3° and 4° of I and 1° and 2° of III of Article R. 53-10 are sent, when the analysis has been carried…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Professional acts.

Article D4311-15-2

I.-The protocols referred to in the fifth paragraph of Article L. 4311-1 comply with the recommendations for good practice drawn up or validated by the Haute Autorité de Santé. They detail the activit…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 311-78

…belongs to a particular genre, the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée may consult the specialised committee responsible for awarding selective grants.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: French Anti-Doping Agency

Article L232-7-3

The Sanctions Committee may set up sections chaired by one of the persons mentioned in 1° of Article L. 232-7-2.The vice-chairman chairs the Sanctions Committee if the chairman is absent. If the Chair…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-3

…nate prescribing framework, the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may, by any means capable of giving a date certain of receipt, ask the marketing authorisation holde…

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