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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Clinical activities involving medically assisted procreation

Article R2142-24

The healthcare establishment or organisation must comply with the rules of good practice defined by order of the Minister for Health, issued on a proposal from the Director General of the Agence de la…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Air medical transport.

Article R6312-24

The authorisation instituted by article L. 6312-2 is issued at the request of the natural or legal person operating a private air medical transport company, provided that : 1° It has previously provid…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation and resources

Article R1233-24

To carry out their mandate, each employee representative elected by the college mentioned in 2° of B of II of article L. 1233-5 benefits from twenty hours of delegation per month. The duration of comm…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6241-24

When employers make the payments mentioned in 2° of article L. 6241-4, the subsidies taken into account for the year in respect of which the apprenticeship tax is due are those paid to apprentice trai…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 156

Income tax is based on the total amount of annual net income available to each tax household. This net income is determined having regard to the property and capital owned by the members of the tax ho…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Qualifications of persons and organisations carrying out location surveys, dust measurements and analyses of materials and products

Article R1334-24

Analyses of materials and products likely to contain asbestos are carried out by an accredited body meeting the requirements defined by an order of the Minister for Health. This order specifies in par…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to sales by judicial tender and by amicable tender.

Article R642-24

When the official receiver, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article L. 642-18, authorises the liquidator to resume the property seizure procedure suspended by the judgment opening the judicial liq…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1581

In stipulating participation in acquests, the spouses may adopt any clauses not contrary to articles 1387, 1388 and 1389. In particular, they may agree to an unequal sharing clause, or stipulate that…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties

Article L621-15-2

Where an institution mentioned in Article L. 370-1 of the Insurance Code and offering the operations mentioned in Articles L. 3334-1 to L. 3334-9 and L. 3334-11 to L. 3334-16 of the Labour Code has br…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5 : Taxpayers with professional income in different categories

Article 155

I. - 1. When an industrial or commercial business extends its activity to operations whose results fall into the category of agricultural profits or profits from non-commercial professions, these resu…

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