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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-13

As soon as the proceedings have been opened, third parties are entitled to submit offers to the administrator with a view to maintaining the business of the company, through a total or partial sale of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-14-1

Traditional herbal medicinal products that meet the following criteria are not subject to marketing authorisation: 1° They are designed to be used without the intervention of a doctor for the purposes…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Safety at sporting events

Article L332-16-1

The Minister of the Interior may, by order, prohibit the individual or collective movement of persons claiming to be supporters of a team or behaving as such at the site of a sporting event and whose…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Withholding

Article L722-17

A decree in the Council of State sets out:

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Tasks and composition of the national order and the national council.

Article L4231-1

The purpose of the Ordre National des Pharmaciens is: 1° To ensure compliance with professional duties ; 2° To defend the honour and independence of the profession; 3° To ensure the competence of phar…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Payment of the subcontractor

Article L2193-10

A direct subcontractor of the holder of the contract who has been accepted and whose terms of payment have been approved by the purchaser shall be paid for the part of the contract for which he is res…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Intermediary parent companies

Article L517-11

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall ensure that an intermediate parent undertaking is set up at the head of a group whose parent undertaking is established in a third country wh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: HARMONISING THE COMMERCIAL FABRIC

Article L5224-1

I.-An imbalance in the local commercial fabric within the perimeter of a territorial coherence plan provided for in Title IV of Book I of the Town Planning Code may be established by the concordant de…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial provisions.

Article L1271-13

The special payment voucher is nominative. It mentions the name of the beneficiary.A decree may specify the cases in which :1° The special payment voucher is payable to a named person, in particular w…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Public sector.

Article L6321-12

In the companies referred to inarticle 1 of law no. 83-675 of 26 July 1983 on the democratisation of the public sector, every training plan contains a programme of actions, in particular with the publ…

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