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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Commitments giving rise to a diversification provision

Article A134-1

For the application of Article R. 134-2, notwithstanding Article 142-3 of Regulation No. 2015-11 of 26 November 2015 of the Autorité des normes comptables relating to the accounting framework for insu…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Undeclared imports and exports.

Article 427

…than electricity, subject to the excise duty on energy mentioned in article L. 312-1 of the code of taxes on goods and services from a tax-privileged destination and in particular the use of agricultu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Alternative care structures to hospitalisation

Article D6124-302

…s and any accompanying persons; 2° The organisation, preparation and optimal implementation of care protocols including pain management; 3° The monitoring and rest required by each patient; 4° The sto…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Financial provisions

Article L3443-3-1

The fraction of the excise duty on tobacco mentioned in article L. 314-1 of the code of taxes on goods and services levied in overseas France is allocated to the department in which it is released for…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Access to documents and supporting documents.

Article L6362-1

The tax authorities, social security bodies, skills operators, Pôle emploi, the commissions mentioned in Article L. 6323-17-6, the bodies authorised to collect the funding contribution mentioned in Ar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article L133-1-1

I. - If the payer's payment service provider is located in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon or Saint-Barthélemy and the payee's payment service provider is located outside France, regardless of the currency u…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General conditions

Article D6124-121

…a sufficient number of dedicated beds to be able to care for cardiac surgery patients at all times.Protocols are agreed between the medical managers of the cardiac surgery units and the intensive car…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article R1511-4

…ocedure, the offer for sale has been advertised for at least two months in the national press, real estate magazines or other appropriate publications and has been advertised by real estate agents add…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Company accounts

Article A232

…ased, excluding value adjustments and dividends received from group companies. The amount of income tax due corresponds to the current tax charge, in respect of taxable profits or losses for the year,…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Technical protection and information measures

Article L331-5

…n of the object of protection or a copy control mechanism that achieves that protection objective.A protocol, format, method of encryption, scrambling or transformation shall not as such constitute a…

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