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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Retail distribution.

Article L5424-4

…subject to financial penalties: 1° Selling the medicinal products and products mentioned in article L. 5121-8 at a price higher than that resulting from price regulations; 2° Selling to the public med…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for the extension of agreements.

Article L2261-22

…g to the determination of the rules for negotiation and conclusion, as provided for in articles :1° L. 2222-1 and L. 2222-2, relating to the territorial and professional scope ;2° L. 2222-5 and L. 222…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Public policy

Article L2242-8

…essional equality between women and men at the end of the negotiations referred to in 2° of article L. 2242-1 or, in the absence of an agreement, by an action plan referred to in article L. 2242-3. Th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5124-11

…dicament et des produits de santé to certify that it holds the authorisation referred to in article L. 5124-3 or, for establishments or organisations manufacturing products referred to in article L. 1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5423-8

…iting a medicinal product or product subject to the marketing authorisation provided for in article L. 5121-8 to communicate the date of marketing of the medicinal product or product to the Agence nat…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Duties and performance of duties

Article L121-1

The Office français de l'immigration et de l'intégration (French Office for Immigration and Integration) is a public administrative establishment of the State responsible, throughout the country, for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Mayotte

Article L1446-1

…exercises, in Mayotte, the powers devolved to the Territorial Health Board provided for in article L. 1434-10. It may not include any specialised commissions.III.-A commission for the coordination of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-5

…deliberative assembly are made available to the public under the conditions provided for in article L. 1411-13.Data relating to water quality, price, volumes consumed, the organisation of the public d…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to non-trading property investment companies

Article L231-20

It is punishable by five years' imprisonment and a fine of 9,000 euros for the liquidator to use, in bad faith, the assets or credit of the company in liquidation in a way that he knows to be contrary…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Public policy.

Article L3133-1

The legal holidays listed below are public holidays: 1° 1st January ; 2° Easter Monday ; 3° 1st May ; 4° 8th May ; 5° Ascension Day ; 6° Whit Monday ; 7° 14th July 8° Assumption Day 9° All Saints' Day…

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