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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation and control of the company

Article R6223-85

…tent order or orders, within one month of the date on which the change occurs, of any change in the last situation declared pursuant to articles R. 6223-80 to R. 6223-82, with supporting documents. Un…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Authorisation

Article R6322-13

…tion for confirmation of an authorisation, the findings made during the inspection mentioned in the last paragraph of Article R. 6322-6 lead to the suspension of the authorisation, the time limits pro…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Management and administration

Article L22-10-9

…nt, in a clear and comprehensible manner, within the corporate governance report referred to in the last paragraph of Article L. 225-37, where applicable, for each corporate officer, including corpora…

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

Article L5842-2

…I. - For the application of Article L. 5211-4-1 :1° In the second to fourth paragraphs of I, in the last paragraph of IV and in IV bis, the words: "fonctionnaires territoriaux et agents territoriaux n…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Common provisions

Article 1727

…s calculated from the first day of the month following the month in which the tax was due until the last day of the month of payment.However, with regard to income tax and with the exception of tax re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 15-4

…police force or the national gendarmerie may be authorised not to be identified by their first and last names in the procedural documents defined in 1° and 2° of this I that they draw up or in which…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L111-7

…paragraph of I. By way of derogation from the first paragraph of this II, the data mentioned in the last paragraph of I may, in the case of risks relating to the length of human life, take the form of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2nd Subsection: Overall income

Article 163-0 A

…s the average net income on the basis of which this taxpayer has been subject to income tax for the last three years, the person concerned may request that the corresponding tax be calculated by addin…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Safeguard measures

Article R385-25

…olvency margin required may not exceed the sum of the minimum margin requirement at the date of the last statement, any margin requirements in addition to the minimum margin requirement required by th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 1693 quater B

…in article 302 septies A not allowed to file its returns by calendar quarter in accordance with the last paragraph of 2 of Article 287 may choose to declare and pay the tax for all the taxpayers in th…

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