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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Regional Cooperation Fund

Article R*4433-28

The committee draws up an annual report for the Prime Minister on the assessment, evaluation and monitoring of operations subsidised by the regional cooperation fund.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Shareholders' meetings

Article R22-10-28

I.-Notwithstanding the provisions of Article R. 225-86, in companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market or to the operations of a central depository, the right to participate i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Post-exposure or post-occupational monitoring

Article R4624-28-3

…up an inventory of the worker's exposure to the occupational risk factors mentioned in Article L. 4161-1.This inventory is drawn up, in particular, on the basis of the information contained in the oc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Composition and operation of the National Medical Accidents Commission.

Article R1142-24

The National Commission for Medical Accidents, set up by article L. 1142-10, is made up of the following members: 1° Four professional health experts appearing on one of the lists drawn up by the Cour…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Special arrangements applicable to distance sales of goods imported from third countries or territories

Article 298 sexdecies H

…es of this special scheme: 1° Any taxable person established on the territory of the European Union carrying out distance selling of goods imported from third territories or countries; 2° Any taxable…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The status of the sole trader

Article L526-24

…failure to comply with his tax obligations, under the conditions set out in I and II of article L. 273 B of the Book of Tax Procedures, or serious and repeated failure to comply with the collection o…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Appeals to the Court of Appeal against decisions of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-24

On pain of inadmissibility raised automatically, the procedural documents shall be submitted to the court by electronic means. Where this cannot be the case, for a reason unrelated to the person compl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Work within the protection perimeter

Article R1322-24

…hydrogéologue agréé en matière d'hygiène publique under the conditions provided for in article R. 1321-14, specially appointed for this purpose, submits a summary report drawn up by the Director Gener…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Maintenance and quality control obligations

Article R5212-24

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé submits to its control a sample of each batch of the substance which, if used separately from the medical device in which it is…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Powers exercised on behalf of the municipality.

Article L2122-24

…tative in the department, for exercising police powers, under the conditions set out in articles L. 2212-1 et seq.

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