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Showing 59916000 of 6655 articles for Art. EU Regulation 2368/2002

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-12

I.-The Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders has sole authority to decide on the issue and conversion of preference shares in the light of a special report by the statutory auditors. It may de…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-2

…well as the rules governing its organisation and operation, are set by the Haut Conseil's internal regulations..

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V quinquies : Duties levied for the benefit of the Caisse nationale de l'assurance maladie (National Health Insurance Fund)

Article 1635 bis AE

…tion of this authorisation.Certain minor variations of type IA mentioned in Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/2008 of 24 November 2008 concerning the examination of variations to the ter…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Use of funds by skills operators to pay for work-linked training, personal training accounts and skills development for companies with fewer than fifty employees

Article L6332-14

…not fixed or if the recommendations are not taken into account by a date and within a period set by regulation, the procedures for determining reimbursement are defined by decree; 2° Capital expenditu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1a: Personnel management

Article D712-11-2

…yment calculated in accordance with Article 4 of Annex 5 to Article 28 of the above-mentioned Staff Regulations. If a member of staff dismissed because of a refusal to transfer is eligible for a full…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Vehicles used for the transport of corpses before coffining (R).

Article D2223-113

…at is a signatory to the multilateral recognition agreement established within the framework of the European Coordination of Accreditation Bodies (European Cooperation for Accreditation or "EA") in ac…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to professional customers

Article D533-11

…o those mentioned in 1 to 4 or which have professional client status in another Member State of the European Union or another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area;6. Public inter…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Experimentation.

Article R5141-11

…nical trial concerns a medicinal product containing a pharmacologically active substance covered by Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 laying down…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Characterisation of infringements of rights

Article L331-25

…ocedure prior to inclusion on the list referred to in I of this Article is undertaken by the rapporteur referred to in Article 42-7 of Act no. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986. II - The investigation proc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2° bis: Tax credit for expenditure on audiovisual and cinematographic creation, royalties paid to collective management organisations and remuneration paid directly to authors

Article 220 sexies A

…penses incurred between 1 March 2020 and 31 December 2020 in France, in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area that has sig…

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