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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Implementation of reporting obligations

Article D722-8

I. - For the purposes of the second paragraph of article L. 722-8, the documents accepted to prove the origin of cash in an amount equal to or greater than 50,000 euros or 5,966,500 CFP francs are as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Advertising aimed at the health professions

Article R5122-8

…duct to the healthcare professionals mentioned in Article L. 5122-9 is tailored to the target audience. It specifies the date on which it was drawn up or last revised and includes at least the followi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Industrial preparation and wholesale.

Article L5142-8

The following shall be determined, as necessary, by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, after obtaining the opinion of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 80-1

…e examining magistrate may only indict persons against whom there is serious or corroborating evidence making it likely that they may have participated, as perpetrator or accomplice, in the commission…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Continuing vocational training for young people under the age of twenty-six (R).

Article R4332-8

…iture incurred by the State in 1993 in each region in respect of actions falling within the competence of the regions pursuant to II b of Article 82 of Law no. 83-8 of 7 January 1983 on the division o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article L814-8

…ticles L. 811-10 and L. 812-8, it shall inform the court of the nature and extent of the due diligence performed over the previous five years. This obligation also applies to persons appointed under t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Credit for hours worked

Article R2123-8

The increase in the duration of the hours credit provided for in Article L. 2123-4 may not exceed 30% per elected member.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title Ia: Electronically supervised home detention sentence

Article D49-83

…the Penitentiary Codedetermine the conditions under which home detention under electronic surveillance is implemented in a place that is not the sentenced person's home; The provisions of article D. 6…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: National cosmetovigilance system

Article R5131-8

The national cosmetovigilance system comprises : 1° The National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products ; 2° The Directorate-General for Consumer Affairs, Competition and Fraud Control…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Court-appointed estate agents.

Article 813-6

The acts referred to in article

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