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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-16

Articles L. 533-11 to L. 533-15 apply taking into account the nature of the service offered or provided, the nature of the financial instrument in question, and the professional or non-professional na…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article R612-3-2

…version into a utility certificate application referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 612-15. This request may be made at any time during the twelve-month period from the date of filing of t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1638-00 bis

…ore 1st October of the year. When the demerger order is issued after 30 September but no later than 15 April of the following year, the decisions relating to the rates to be set for the latter year in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 8: Terms and conditions of office

Article L4422-46

…orsica is determined by applying the rate of 60% to the reference term mentioned in Article L. 4135-15; 2° The duties of president and member of the executive council are assimilated, as regards the m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Application for substantial modification

Article R1124-13

…ing under Part I provided for in Article 6 of the aforementioned Regulation of 16 April 2014 within 15 days of the date of validation of the application referred to in Article 17(5) of this Regulation…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The special register of individual entrepreneurs with limited liability.

Article R526-20

Declarations and filings to the special register mentioned in Articles R. 526-15 and R. 526-16 are made electronically, through the single body mentioned in Article R. 123-1 and under the conditions p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Provisions relating to victims and civil parties

Article D49-71

…orcing a prison sentence in the case provided for by the second and third paragraphs of Article 723-15-2 and by article 723-16, may inform the victim, unless the provisions of articles D. 49-72 or D.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions

Article R3233-1

…der illegal conditions. Repeated offences are punishable in accordance with articles 132-11 and 132-15 of the French Penal Code. In the event of more than one offence resulting in a repeat offence, th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Compulsory expenditure.

Article D2573-32

…III and IV. II. - For the application of Article R. 2321-1, the words: "mentioned in Article L. 132-15 of the Town Planning Code" are deleted. III. - For the application of article R. 2321-2, the word…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to leave for health or family reasons

Article R6152-818

The provisions of article 15 of decree no. 88-386 of 19 April 1988 relating to physical fitness conditions and sick leave for hospital civil servants are applicable to practitioners governed by this c…

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