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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Data processing by the Commission for access to third-party donor data by persons born of medically assisted procreation

Article R2143-18

…and, where applicable, subcontractors recruited under the conditions provided for in Article 28 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, for the purposes of designing, developing, maintaining an…

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

Article R821-75

…t audit certification assignments for public interest entities referred to in i of Article 26(2) of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014 of 16 April 2014.Where the statutory auditor has not performed any certi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Safeguard measures

Article R4314-12

…requesting third parties to apply such measures. The market surveillance authority shall inform the European Commission and the other Member States of the safeguard measures taken on the basis of this…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-138-4

…devices are considered equivalent if :1° They meet the requirements set out in Commission Delegated Regulation No 2016/161 EU of 2 October 2015 supplementing Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parli…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions.

Article D211-1 A

…ng facility, with the exception of wholesale energy products, as defined in point 4 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 concer…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES GOVERNED BY ARTICLE 73 OF THE CONSTITUTION AND FOR SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON

Article L591-2

…r conditions laid down by decree of the Conseil d'Etat, determine the State responsible pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 establishi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: LOCAL PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION

Article L1441-1

A municipality or a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation may set up, with the State, a local public establishment for educational cooperation responsible for mobilising and coordinatin…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 900-5

The application is admissible only ten years after the death of the disposing person or, in the case of successive applications, ten years after the judgment ordering the previous review. The person r…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special provisions for the sale by auction of an immovable property

Article R742-38

Within a period of two months from the date of the final adjudication, the successful bidder shall deposit with the Caisse des dépôts et consignations the full amount of the adjudication price includi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Membership rules

Article D3141-22

The paid leave funds are affiliated to an overcompensation fund set up for all the companies mentioned in Article D. 3141-12. The purpose of this fund is, in particular, to share between the funds con…

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