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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmaceutical products.

Article L5521-2

Subject to the adaptations provided for in article L. 5521-3, the first and second paragraphs of article L. 5125-23, articles L. 5125-24 to L. 5125-31 and 3° and 6° of article L. 5125-32 areapplicable…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Retailers' cooperative societies.

Article L124-16

Sociétés coopératives d'achat en commun de commerçants détaillants et leurs unions constituées sous l'empire de la loi n° 49-1070 du 2 août 1949 are deemed to satisfy the provisions of this chapter wi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-7

I. - For the persons mentioned in 1° to 6° and 7° bis of Article L. 561-2, the obligations laid down in I and III of Article L. 561-5 and in Article L. 561-5-1 may be implemented by a third party in e…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Definitions and missions

Article L721-7

In the collectivities referred to in Article 73 of the Constitution and in the collectivities of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the Banque de France carries out the tasks…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Falsified medicinal products

Article L5421-13

Manufacturing, brokering, distributing, advertising, offering for sale, selling, importing and exporting falsified medicinal products as defined in article L. 5111-3 are punishable by five years' impr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Companies required to register

Article L123-36

A national register of companies is kept, in which companies carrying out a commercial, craft, agricultural or self-employed activity on French territory are registered. The following are thus registe…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Rights of audiovisual communication companies

Article L216-1

The reproduction of its programmes, as well as their making available to the public by sale, hire or exchange, their radio or television broadcasting, their making available to the public online and t…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Consumer rights

Article L217-6

Where, in the course of the contract, personal data is processed by the trader, a failure on his part to comply with his obligations under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 and the loi n° 78-1…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L1431-6

I. - The staff of public cultural or environmental cooperation establishments of an administrative nature are subject to the provisions of loi n° 84-53 du 26 janvier 1984 portant dispositions statutai…

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

Article L2411-1

I. - A section de commune is any part of a commune permanently and exclusively possessing property or rights distinct from those of the commune.The section de commune is a legal person governed by pub…

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