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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L613-34

…cle L. 613-62-1 shall apply to them.Unless otherwise provided, the provisions of this section applicable to credit institutions shall apply under the same conditions to the central bodies mentioned in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Missions.

Article L5311-1

…ts de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products) is a public establishment under the supervision of the Minister for Health.II-The Agency assesses the benefits and…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-11

…rised natural or legal person who carried out the analysis. II. II.-The data mentioned in 1° and 1° bis of the I of Article R. 53-10 shall also be accompanied by: 1° Information relating to the seal o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XLIX: Tax credit for low-income housing associations investing in new housing in overseas France

Article 244 quater Y

…iative energy. B.-The tax reduction provided for in A of this I also applies to renovation and refurbishment work on classified hotels, tourist residences and holiday villages where this work constitu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L613-34-1

…within the meaning of Article L. 613-32-1 ; 2° "Transnational group" means a group with entities established in more than one Member State of the European Union; 3° "EU State aid rules" means all the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Local semi-public companies

Article L1862-1

I.-The provisions of Title II of Book V of Part One mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, insofar as they apply to communes and their groupings, are applicable to semi-public companies…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative penalties

Article L6241-1

…constitute an offence subject to administrative sanction: 1° The performance, by a medical biology laboratory, of medical biology examinations with a view to establishing a prenatal diagnosis in disre…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-14

…in the following paragraphs: 1° Data and information relating to the traces mentioned in 1° and 1° bis of I of Article R. 53-10 are kept for twenty-five years from the date of registration in the fil…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Powers

Article L784-8

…the adaptations provided for in II and III, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Powers

Article L783-8

…the adaptations provided for in II and III, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the sa…

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