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Showing 54715480 of 5672 articles for Art. 12 juill. 2000

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for authorisation.

Article R5121-25

The application provided for in Article R. 5121-21 must be accompanied by a dossier containing the following information and documents, updated as necessary, presented in accordance with the order ref…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Biomedicine

Article L1418-1

…donors' health;7° Registering patients waiting for transplants on the list mentioned in article L. 1251-1, managing this list and that of the register of pairs of living donors and potential recipien…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Police

Article L2573-19

I.-The provisions of Chapter III of Title I of Book II of Part Two mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand colu…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: REVENUE

Article L4331-2

…21-44 du même code;4° S'agissant du produit de l'accise sur les énergies mentionnée à l'article L. 312-1 of the code of taxes on goods and services and levied on diesel and petrol in mainland France,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article R93

…rs (taking of evidence) (recast) ;11° Of the contribution paid by the State in respect of legal aid;12° Of the implementation of the provisions of Book VI (legislative part) of the Commercial Code rel…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article L743-1

…016 L. 211-10 law no. 2013-672 of 26 July 2013 L. 211-11 Order no. 2009-15 of 8 January 2009 L. 211-12 order no. 2011-1895 of 19 December 2011 L. 211-13 Order no. 2009-15 of 8 January 2009 L. 211-14 O…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article L742-1

…016 L. 211-10 law no. 2013-672 of 26 July 2013 L. 211-11 Order no. 2009-15 of 8 January 2009 L. 211-12 order no. 2011-1895 of 19 December 2011 L. 211-13 Order no. 2009-15 of 8 January 2009 L. 211-14 O…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-21

…d with the opening balances; -review of gross margin and cut-off procedures; Conclusions and report 12. Where the auditor is unable to perform the procedures described in the preceding paragraphs a po…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Importation of faeces and faecal microbiota preparations

Article R513-11-10

…ation provided for in Article L. 513-11-1, pharmacies for internal use authorised under Article L. 5126-4 or pharmaceutical establishments authorised under Article L. 5124-3 may obtain authorisation t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-6

…compensation rate of 15.482% is applicable to eligible investment expenditure incurred from 1 April 2000 by communities of communes, communities of towns and conurbation communities.The flat-rate comp…

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