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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Assignment and pledging of trade receivables

Article L313-29-1

…d ancillary costs, interim financial costs and financing costs, is assigned pursuant to Articles L. 313-23 to L. 313-29 of this Code, the contract may stipulate that this assignment is subject to the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Other formalities.

Article L1221-18

By 31 January each year at the latest, all employers of salaried employees or persons treated as such are required to send the body responsible for collecting social security contributions a statement…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4b: Compensation for victims of sodium valproate or its derivatives

Article L1142-24-12

…e of the injuries referred to in Article L. 1142-24-10 are attributable to the prescription, before 31 December 2015, of sodium valproate or one of its derivatives during pregnancy, the College of Exp…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Points scale for works in the animation genre

Article D331-51

For the "Creative Infrastructure" group, a maximum of 31 points are allocated as follows: 1° At least 50% of the costs relating to storyboarding and/or the creation of sets and animation and/or 3D pre…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L3123-1

…for in articles 222-34 to 222-40 are excluded from the procedure for awarding concession contracts,313-1,313-3,314-1,324-1,324-5,324-6,421-1 to 421-2-4,421-5,432-10,432-11,432-12 to 432-16,433-1,433-…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Energy

Article L2224-34

…the syndicates exercising the competence mentioned in the second paragraph of IV of Article L. 2224-31 may, in particular, carry out actions aimed at controlling network energy demand from end consume…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-11

…party to the aforementioned convention; 3° War crimes and offences defined in articles 461-1 to 461-31 of the same code, if the acts are punishable under the law of the State where they were committed…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4221-10

…length of service. The persons concerned must have passed national aptitude tests organised before 31 December 2001 and defined by regulatory provisions adopted in application of article L. 6152-1. B…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Categories of insurance and statements to be produced.

Article Annexe R344-7

…ent 28 Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. 10 29-30 Manufacture of transport equipment 11 31-33 Other manufacturing; repair and installation of machinery and equipment 12 41-43 Construction…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Appeals against decisions by the Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority

Article R331-44

…the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique mentioned in articles R. 331-36 to R. 331-38 and R. 331-41 are notified by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt t…

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