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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Foreign investment subject to authorisation

Article R151-3

The activities referred to in I of article L. 151-3 are as follows: I.-Activities likely to affect national defence interests, participating in the exercise of public authority or likely to affect pub…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article L5211-28

…s for inter-municipal cooperation with their own taxation belonging to the following categories receive, from the year in which they first receive the proceeds of their taxation, an allocation under t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-47

…concerned is carried out by an independent expert. II. - When all the requirements set out in I and IV to IX have been met, the valuation for resolution purposes is considered final. III. - In the eve…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VIa: Customs detention and criminal proceedings

Article L716-8-5

…immediately inform the applicant and provide him with the quantity, nature and images of the goods. IV.-The detention measure shall be lifted ipso jure if the applicant fails, within a period of ten w…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Litigation

Article L722-14

…immediately inform the applicant and provide him with the quantity, nature and images of the goods. IV. - The detention order shall be lifted automatically if the applicant fails, within ten working d…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General principles

Article D1611-35

…udy is attached to the presentation of the exceptional investment operation project to the deliberative assembly, which may take place at the time of the budgetary orientation debate or the vote on a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Obligations of establishments providing the public hospital service

Article R6112-4

I.-When a private health care institution is authorised to provide the public hospital service under the conditions defined in article L. 6112-3, its legal representative must bring its articles of as…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Definitive approval

Article D331-35

…rdecies of the General Tax Code and is eligible for the tax credit for the expenditure mentioned in IV of the same article.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Finance companies carrying out a permanent mission in the public interest.

Article R515-2

…chapitre II du titre V du livre IV du code de la construction et de l'habitation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Information systems

Article R1413-58-1

…of public interest mentioned in i of 2 of Article 9 of the same Regulation. It enables public and private medical biology departments and laboratories to report and transmit the data provided for in A…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
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