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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Monitoring and penalties

Article L1333-31

The control referred to in Article L. 1333-30 is carried out under the same conditions as those laid down in Chapter I of Title VII of Book I of the Environment Code. Where the competent authority is…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Verification and admission of claims.

Article R624-3

Decisions to admit claims without objection are evidenced by the official receiver's signature on the list of claims drawn up by the mandataire judiciaire. The court clerk notifies the creditors or th…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Prevention of offences committed via the Internet

Article 67 D-9

Customs officers authorised under the conditions provided for in the first paragraph ofArticle 67 D-6 who observe non-compliance with the measures ordered pursuant to the first paragraph ofArticle 67…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Automatic registrations

Article R123-316

The keeper of the National Register of Companies shall proceed with the striking off of any person: 1° As from the closure of bankruptcy proceedings, the liquidation of assets due to insufficient asse…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Composition and operation of the committee of experts on the specific rules applicable to the compensation of intermittent performing artists and technicians.

Article D5424-66

The Expertise Committee is made up of: 1° The Director of Research, Studies and Statistics of the Ministry responsible for employment or his/her representative; 2° The Head of the Department of Studie…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Consultancy

Article D6151-2

University professors who are hospital practitioners and who benefit from an extension of their activity under the conditions laid down inarticle L. 952-10 of the Education Code may request to continu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Exemptions of more than two years

Article 1383 D

I. - Municipalities and their public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status may, by means of a general decision taken under the conditions laid down in I of l'article…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General conditions

Article D6124-153

The burns treatment facility includes at least : 1° A technical area for receiving and conditioning patients ; 2° One or more full-time hospitalisation sectors comprising : - at least 6 beds adapted f…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article D2681-2

Subject to the adaptations provided for in this Title, the following provisions shall apply in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories to public contracts concluded by the State or its public es…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5461-3

I.-Placing on the market or putting into service on French territory a medical device or its accessories is punishable by five years' imprisonment and a fine of 375,000 euros: 1° Without the EU declar…

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