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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4151-5-1

…ications attested by all the qualifications from initial training, relevant professional experience and lifelong training validated by a competent body reveals substantial differences with regard to t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Guarantee of gold, silver and platinum materials

Article 547

The additional measures are determined by decrees in the Council of State (1). (1) Annex I, art. 204 to 211.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Optional provisional enforcement

Article 516

…he decision which it is intended to render enforceable, subject to the provisions of Articles 517-2 and 517-3.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership

Article L22-10-59

…ment board or exercising the functions of chief executive officer or deputy chief executive officer and by employees with knowledge of inside information, within the meaning of Article 7 of Regulation…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Principles.

Article L2141-5-1

…guaranteed changes in the remuneration of the employees mentioned in 1° to 7° of article L. 2411-1 and in articles L. 2142-1-1 and L. 2411-2 at least as favourable as those mentioned in this article,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4a: Temporary open-ended employment contract

Article L1251-58-1

…es rise to: 1° The conclusion of a secondment contract between the temporary employment undertaking and the user client, known as the "user undertaking"; 2° A letter of assignment drawn up by the temp…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Final proceedings before the Police Court

Article 543

The following articles 475-1 to 486 concerning court fees and costs, the return of items placed in the hands of the courts and the form of judgments. However, the provisions of Article 480-1 only appl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee.

Article R2573-58-1

Each year, the Local Finance Committee sets the categories of eligible priority operations and determines the applicable subsidy rates for each of them. The Local Finance Committee sets the categories…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4a: Special provisions for the preparation, distribution and administration of advanced therapy medicinal products prepared on an ad hoc basis as part of the same medical procedure as the removal of the tissues or autologous cells used in their composition.

Article R4211-51-1

…4211-9-1, an establishment or organisation authorised under this section may have the preparation and distribution of an individually prepared advanced therapy medicinal product as mentioned in Arti…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Opposition.

Article 575

…graph 2) it must, on pain of inadmissibility, be declared at the clerk's office of the court which handed down the decision by the lawyer constituted by the defaulting party, within one month of the d…

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