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Showing 31313140 of 58366 articles for Art. Ord. 2014-86 of 30 January 2014 · Loi 2015-990 of 6 August 2015

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Procedure for authorising the import and export of elements or products of the human body mentioned in Article R. 1245-1 for therapeutic purposes, as provided for in the first and third paragraphs of II of Article L. 1245-5.

Article R1245-6

The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé will send a copy of the dossier to the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine, who will give h…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Transfers and other transactions resulting from verbal agreements

Article 638

In the absence of deeds, transfers of ownership or usufruct of immovable property, businesses, clienteles or offices and transfers of the right to a lease or the benefit of a promise to lease relating…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Transfers and other transactions resulting from verbal agreements

Article 639

In the absence of deeds, transfers of shares, founders' shares and profit shares in companies whose corporate rights are not traded on a regulated financial instruments market within the meaning of Ar…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Transfers and other transactions resulting from verbal agreements

Article 640

In the absence of deeds, transfers of enjoyment for life or for an unlimited period of real estate, business assets or customer lists must be declared within one month of the entry into enjoyment.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Organisations approved for the collective management of the right to authorise the exploitation of certain unavailable works

Article R328-6

If an approved organisation ceases to fulfil one of the conditions set out in article R. 328-1, the Minister responsible for culture will give it written notice to comply with the conditions of approv…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inter-company occupational health and prevention service responsible for joint monitoring of this worker's state of health

Article D4624-61

…main employer's inter-company occupational health and prevention service will assess, in the light of the information available to it, in particular that provided by the worker's employers, whether t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inter-company occupational health and prevention service responsible for joint monitoring of this worker's state of health

Article D4624-62

The monitoring of a worker's state of health provided for in Article L. 4624-1-1 is carried out by the main employer's inter-company occupational health and prevention service, to which the other empl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Payment service providers

Article L521-6

…process personal data where this is necessary to ensure the prevention, investigation and detection of payment fraud. The communication to individuals of information on the processing of personal data…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 12: Provisions relating to relations with the authorities of non-EU Member States in the context of a resolution procedure

Article L613-62

I. - The provisions of this article shall apply where there is no agreement between the European Union and a State which is not a member of the Union and where an existing agreement does not deal with…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: General conditions of application of the Code in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article L711-6

For the application of the provisions of Books I to VI of this Code in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations in this Book : 1° References to the provisions of the General Tax Code,…

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