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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Missions.

Article L5311-1

…se, magistral, hospital and officinal preparations, narcotic substances, psychotropic or other poisonous substances, essential oils and medicinal plants, raw materials for pharmaceutical use ;2° Contr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Transfers

Article L224-40

…mentionné à l'article L. 132-23 du code des assurances ; 4° Une convention d'assurance de groupe dénommée "complémentaire retraite des hospitaliers" mentionnée à l'article L. 132-23 of the Insurance…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXV: Procedure applicable to organised crime and delinquency and to felonies

Article 706-73

…he offences mentioned in 1° to 17° of this article; 20° Offence of fraudulent abuse of a state of ignorance or weakness committed in an organised gang provided for in the last paragraph of article 223…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IIIa: The national platform for judicial interception

Article R40-47

…detachable from the judicial purposes of the processing operation may be entrusted by contract may not have access to the data, information and content of communications recorded by the processing op…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Business-to-business loans

Article R511-2-1-1

…oup, on the one hand, and the borrowing company or a member of its group, on the other hand, are economically linked in one or other of the following ways: 1° The two companies are members of the same…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Provisions relating to the implementation of an internal bail-out measure

Article L613-55-1

I. - The following commitments may not be written down or converted, regardless of the legal regime applicable to them: 1° Covered deposits defined in application of 2° of article L. 312-16 or covered…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Regulations and decisions

Article L621-7

…ular professional basis within the meaning of points 34 and 35 of 1 of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse and the r…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Definition of taxable income

Article 81

…tors, photographers, newspaper directors and drama and music critics whose gross annual income does not exceed €93,510. However, when their amount is set by law, these allowances are always deemed to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article A43-9

…ount excluding tax of the tariffs set out in the tables annexed to this article.III. - For services not listed in the attached tables, the amount of reimbursement is determined by agreement with the o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Income from securities issued outside France and similar income

Article 123 bis

…heir ascendants or descendants. However, these shares, units, financial rights or voting rights are not taken into account when calculating the individual's income from transferable capital referred t…

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