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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Obligations of employers and debtors

Article 88

Any natural or legal person paying life pensions or annuities is required to declare the sums paid and to provide details of the holders of these pensions or annuities.This declaration must be filed w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 8

…his code, when committed against minors, with the exception of those mentioned in articles 222-29-1 and 227-26 of the Penal Code, shall be time-barred after ten years from the age of majority of the l…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3°: Offices (Transfers, creations and deletions)

Article 859

…able consideration or free of charge of an office, the clientele, minutes, repertoires, collections and other objects dependent thereon must be evidenced in writing and registered, before being produc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Public and civil proceedings

Article 807

For the application of Article 2-6, references to the provisions of the code du travail are replaced by references to the locally applicable labour law provisions.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Public and civil proceedings

Article 808

…ws:"Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years at the date of the events and whose purpose, by virtue of its articles of association, is to defend or assist disabled people…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Hospital prescription medicines

Article R5121-85

…e, as well as in I of Article 60 of Law no. 99-641 of 27 July 1999 creating universal health cover, and who is practising in a public or private health establishment or in a health cooperation groupin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Hospital prescription medicines

Article R5121-86

The marketing authorisation, the early access authorisation under 1° of II of article L. 5121-12 or the compassionate access authorisation under II of article L. 5121-12-1 or the compassionate prescri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Hospital prescription medicines

Article R5121-84

…d on the prescription of the medicinal product are justified by the need to carry out the diagnosis and monitoring of the diseases for the treatment of which the medicinal product is normally used in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Revitalisation of employment areas.

Article L1233-85

An agreement between the company and the administrative authority, concluded within six months of the notification provided for in article L. 1233-46, determines, where applicable on the basis of a so…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Revitalisation of employment areas.

Article L1233-88

The actions provided for in articles L. 1233-84 and L. 1233-87 are determined after consultation with the local authorities concerned, the consular bodies and the social partners who are members of th…

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