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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Professional identity card.

Article L7111-6

…sional identity card, the conditions of issue, period of validity, conditions and forms in which it may be cancelled being determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. Former professional journalists m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special provisions for the importation of labile blood products for direct therapeutic use.

Article D1221-64

By way of derogation from the provisions of g of Article D. 1221-61, when labile blood products from several samples are imported with a view to a scheduled autologous transfusion and the planned date…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 209

…s liable to corporation tax shall be determined in accordance with the rules laid down in Articles 34 to 45,53 A to 57,108 to 117,237 ter A et 302 septies A bis and taking into account only profits ma…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: General partnerships.

Article L221-6

…e managing partners are taken unanimously by the shareholders. However, the Articles of Association may provide that certain decisions shall be taken by a majority which they shall determine. The Arti…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 60-9

Customs officers may only take statements with a view to recognising objects discovered during the visit. Where a person concerned by the visit and suspected of having committed a customs offence is t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General rules governing UCITS

Article L214-6

Creditors whose title arises from the safekeeping or management of the assets of a UCITS may take action only against those assets. Creditors of the depositary or third party to whom custody of the as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Board of Directors

Article R1418-6

…ssociations of users of the healthcare system approved under the conditions laid down in Article L. 1114-1;4° Two representatives of the Agency's staff, elected by the staff in accordance with the pro…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Formation of the company

Article L4041-6

The members may carry on outside the interprofessional outpatient healthcare company any professional activity the joint practice of which has not been expressly provided for in the Articles of Associ…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2a : Changing the sex designation in civil status records

Article 61-5

…orrespond to the sex in which he or she presents himself or herself and in which he or she is known may obtain its amendment.The main facts, proof of which may be provided by any means, may be:1° That…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Applications for review and reconsideration

Article 622-1

A review of a final criminal judgment may be requested for the benefit of any person convicted of an offence where it follows from a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights that the conviction…

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