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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article R214-40

…e start of the financial year following the end of the fifth financial year after that in which the last subscriptions were made, in all other cases. As from the financial year during which the declar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article D214-59

…elopment for the following three years; 3° The balance sheet and income statement for the company's last financial year; 4° A financing plan for the project and the company's projected balance sheets…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Rights of foreign employees.

Article L8252-2

…he contrary, the sums due to the employee correspond to an employment relationship presumed to have lasted three months. The employee may provide proof of the work performed by any means; 2° In the ev…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Information on public water supplies

Article D1321-104

…which is easily accessible to the public during normal opening hours, data relating to at least the last three years is kept directly available to the public. Where the data is recorded on a computeri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-32

…iting bathing, by means of a simple and clear sign or symbol ;2° The results of the analyses of the last sample taken for health monitoring purposes, accompanied by their health interpretation, as soo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Applications for authorisation

Article R1333-123

…o be included in the authorisation application file are made up of the information mentioned in the last paragraph of II of article R. 1333-9.II - Where the application relates to the distribution, im…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I

Article R1615-6

…st fixed by the order mentioned in IV of Article R. 1615-1 by application of the rates fixed in the last two paragraphs of I of Article L. 1615-6. III. For communities of conurbations, communities of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Traffic and parking regulations

Article D2213-1-0-5

…aph of I of Article L. 2213-4-1 is waived where it is demonstrated, at least three years out of the last five, by measurements carried out or by modelling in accordance with article R. 221-3 of the En…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prudential control and resolution authority

Article R784-8

…2013-978 of 30 October 2013R. 612-49n° 2011-769 of 28 June 2011R. 612-50 with the exception of its last two paragraphsn° 2014-1315 of 3 November 2014R. 612-50-1n° 2021-898 of 6 July 2021R. 612-51n° 2…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Regional Health Agency for French Guiana

Article D1444-2

…tive of the health centres appointed by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency"; 3° The last paragraph of Article D. 1432-29 is not applicable; 4° Le 2° des articles D. 1432-37 et D. 1432-…

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