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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Practice of the professions.

Article L4241-16

…armacy assistants in a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area may perform professional acts in France on a temporary and occasional basis. Where the practice or t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 1693 quater

…he same article 287 filed in respect of the month of September; 2° In other cases, no later than 25 October, when filing the appendix to the declaration provided for in the same 1 filed with the colle…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organs, tissues and cells removed for therapeutic purposes for others.

Article R1211-16

The analyses provided for in article R. 1211-14 are supplemented, depending on the nature of the samples envisaged, by other medical biology analyses designed to diagnose transmissible infectious dise…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Composition and operation

Article R5112-16

…ns.The departmental or, where applicable, regional director of public finance or his representative may be heard by the specialised panel competent in the field of employment if it deems this useful.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Financial sections

Article D6332-16

…thin it, the contributions made by self-employed workers under the conditions set out in Article L. 6332-11-1. The board of directors of the skills operator decides, on the basis of proposals from a m…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-24

The owner of the patent may at any time either renounce the patent in its entirety or one or more claims, or limit the scope of the patent by amending one or more claims.The request for renunciation o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Rules common to leases of houses and rural property.

Article 1723

The lessor may not, during the term of the lease, change the form of the thing leased.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Additional regional tax on tourist tax

Article L2531-17

It is instituted an additional tax of 15% to the tourist tax or flat-rate tourist tax collected in the Ile-de-France region by the municipalities mentioned in article L. 2333-26 as well as by the publ…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2a: Infringement of the obligation to present accounts in electronic form, cost accounting or consolidated accounts

Article 1729 G

…cle 204 J and increased, where applicable, by the amount of payments not refunded pursuant to 2° of 6 of the same III, proves to be more than 10% less than the amount of the deduction that would have…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: The company during the observation period.

Article L622-21

…ibits any legal action on the part of all creditors whose claim is not mentioned in I of Article L. 622-17 and seeking: 1° To order the debtor to pay a sum of money; 2° To rescind a contract for failu…

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