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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Departmental committee for direct taxes and turnover taxes

Article 1651 C

For the determination of the market value used for the assessment of value added tax, in the cases provided for in 4° of 1 of Article L. 59 A of the Book of Tax Procedures, the commission comprises, i…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VIII: Specific procedures

Article 899

…awarded to the victim as compensation for his loss :benefits listed in II of Article 1 of Ordinance no. 59-76 of 7 January 1959 on actions for civil damages by the State and certain other public perso…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Industrial tribunal members

Article D1423-62

At his or her request, an employee who is a member of a labour tribunal and who works a continuous or discontinuous shift, all or part of which is completed between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., is compensated…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inter-company occupational health and prevention service responsible for joint monitoring of this worker's state of health

Article D4624-61

The main employer's inter-company occupational health and prevention service will assess, in the light of the information available to it, in particular that provided by the worker's employers, whethe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Enforcement of the judgment and individual compensation for damages

Article L1143-13

…le L. 752-23 of the Code rural et de la pêche maritime (Rural and Maritime Fishing Code), Ordinance no. 59-76 of 7 January 1959 relating to actions for civil damages by the State and certain other pub…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special provisions for sales by judicial auction.

Article R642-29-2

Only the provisions of Section 4 of the chapitre II du titre II du livre III du code des procédures civiles d'exécution which are mentioned below. At the auction hearing, the procedure set out in sub-…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Dispensing to the public

Article R5126-61

The following shall be removed from the list mentioned in article R. 5126-58: 1° A medicinal product which ceases to fulfil the condition mentioned in 1°, 2° or 3° of article R. 5126-59. This deletion…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Effect on insurance contracts of the requisition of goods and services.

Article L160-7

The requisitioning of services, within the meaning of article 2 of order no. 59-63 of 6 January 1959 relating to the requisitioning of goods and services, as well as in the case of accommodation or ca…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Withholding

Article L335-12

I. - Where the detention provided for by European Union regulations and relating to goods suspected of infringing a copyright or related right is implemented before an application by the right holder…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation

Article D211-62

The Director General of the National Mountain Sports School prepares the work and implements the decisions of the Board of Directors. He represents the school in all civil acts. He is authorised to ta…

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