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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title III: Procedures and penalties

Article R335-16

…ntative, the other is given to the holder or declarant or the representative of one of them and the last is kept by the customs administration. The three samples must, as far as possible, be identical…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter V: Financial and prudential rules applicable to supplementary occupational pension funds

Article A385-2

…llowing assumptions:1° The projected premiums correspond to the average premiums collected over the last three financial years. However, if the supplementary occupational pension fund justifies the co…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5423-9

…the support and information measures for healthcare professionals and patients provided for in the last paragraph of Article L. 5121-32.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Undertakings for collective real estate investment.

Article R214-89

…214-36 in which the real estate investment trust has holdings meeting the conditions set out in the last sentence of 1° of article L. 214-37, in proportion to the real estate investment trust's direct…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement of proceedings.

Article R621-8

…of a sole trader with limited liability to which assets are assigned, the name provided for in the last paragraph of Article L. 526-6, as the case may be, of its registered office or business address…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article R621-46

…ticulars prescribed byarticle 648 of the Code of Civil Procedure and specify the subject of the appeal. Where the statement of appeal does not contain a statement of the grounds on which the appeal is…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Collective investments

Article R742-13

…214-194, R. 214-196 to R. 214-202n° 2013-687 of 25 July 2013R. 214-203-1, with the exception of the last paragraphn° 2022-110 of 1 February 2022R. 214-203-2n° 2018-1004 of 19 November 2018R. 214-203-3…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 12: Notice

Article R5121-149

…list of the names authorised in each of these States; 8° The date on which the package leaflet was last revised. For medicinal products included on the list referred to in Article 23 of Regulation (E…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Bodies

Article L5211-9-2

…he transfer to him of the police powers of the mayors of the member municipalities mentioned in the last paragraph of A of I, unless at least half of the mayors of these municipalities have opposed th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Business property tax

Article 1466 A

…during a period of six years beginning on the date of publication of the decree provided for in the last paragraph of the same 3 ter or, if this second date is later, on 1 January of the year precedin…

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