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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Tax on television service publishers and distributors

Article L115-10

Taxpayers pay the tax to the accounting agent of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in monthly or quarterly instalments according to the frequency of their value added tax return. Thes…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article R1323-1

…o. 2006-352 of 20 March 2006 on food supplements; 4° Foodstuffs covered by Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on foodstuffs intended for infants…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Foreign investment subject to prior authorisation

Article R732-14

I. - Pursuant to 8° of article 6-2 of Organic Law no. 99-209 of 19 March 1999, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, articles R. 151-1 to R. 151-17 are automatically applicable in New Caledon…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R5121-51

In order to obtain a marketing authorisation for a medicinal product which is not covered by the marketing authorisation procedure issued by the European Commission pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 726/…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for registration in national directories

Article R6113-11

Applications for registration of proposed qualifications under Article L. 6113-6 are examined on the basis of the following criteria: 1° The extent to which the knowledge and skills targeted match the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Leave

Article R6152-362

A contractual practitioner suffering from a duly diagnosed condition which, with the exception of the pathologies mentioned in article R. 6152-39, on the list drawn up in application ofarticle 28 of d…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Transfer procedures

Article L1424-22

If the agreements provided for in articles L1424-13, L1424-14 and L1424-17, six months before the deadline set in these same articles, a national commission settles, on referral from the prefect, with…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Notification of dismissal.

Article L1233-15

…ays for the individual dismissal of a member of management staff mentioned in 2° of article L. 1441-13.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personal data protection committees and competent authority

Article L1123-3

…formation are required, under the conditions and subject to the penalties laid down in articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Penal Code, to keep secret any information which may come to their knowl…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter 3: Provisions relating to Mayotte.

Article L363-1

…Title VII of this Book apply under the following conditions: 1° For the application of article L. 313-1, articles L. 3331-1, L. 3331-2, L. 3332-11, L. 3335-3 and L. 3335-4 of the Public Health Code a…

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