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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Openings, mutations and transfers.

Article L3332-4-1

Any person wishing to open a public house mentioned in articles L. 3331-2 or L. 3331-3 must make a declaration under the conditions set out in the first to seventh paragraphs of article L. 3332-3, whi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R6152-4-1

…ional Health Agency taken on a proposal from the director of the establishment, benefit from the arrangement referred to in the first paragraph. The Director General of the Regional Health Agency may,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2a: Local protocols

Article D4011-4-1

…ng a dedicated online application on the website of the Ministry of Health. He submits the protocol and its appendices to this application, as well as the following supporting documents for each membe…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Agency agreement

Article L132-20-4

…a work under the conditions mentioned in article L. 122-2-4 may only be exercised by a collective management organisation.If this organisation is governed by Title II of Book III, it must be approved…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1 : Issue of plant variety certificates

Article L623-4-1

…performed on a private basis for non-professional or non-commercial purposes; 2° Acts performed on an experimental basis; 3° Acts performed for the purpose of creating a new variety or acts referred…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 706-47-1

…der imposed either at the time of their conviction, as part of a socio-judicial follow-up, in accordance with article 131-36-4 of the Criminal Code, or subsequent to this, as part of this monitoring,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial reporting requirements

Article L451-1-4

…L. 451-1-2 do not apply to the following issuers: 1° The States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and their local authorities; 2° The European Central Bank and the central banks of…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article R111-4-1

…the following definitions apply: "Portable computer": a computer specially designed to be portable and to be able to operate for long periods of time with or without a direct connection to an alterna…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Policyholder and beneficiary information and pricing

Article A132-4-7

…tion to go back on the first conversion decision offered to the subscriber or member of a life insurance or capitalisation contract, under the conditions provided for in I of Article 3 of Order no. 20…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Derogation from the weekly working time in the event of combination with another part-time employment contract

Article D5132-43-14

The derogation, provided for in article L. 5132-15-1 in the event of combination with another part-time employment contract, from the minimum weekly working time for the holder of a fixed-term contrac…

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