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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Protocol for therapeutic use and patient monitoring

Article R5121-74-5

I.-The granting of a compassionate access authorisation is subject to the establishment by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé of a therapeutic use and patient moni…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Competent administrative authorities

Article R*732-3

Notwithstanding article R. 732-2, the Minister of the Interior is competent to place a foreign national under house arrest, pursuant to 6° of article L. 731-3 or article L. 731-4, in the following cas…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors

Article A822-28-7

Publications eligible under 4° of Article A. 822-28-3 are taken into account in the year of their legal deposit. For essays, books and publications of articles, the following two cumulative criteria a…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 77-1-1

The Public Prosecutor or, with his authorisation, the judicial police officer or agent or, in the case provided for in 3° of Article 21-3 and under the control of the latter, the investigation assista…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Supervision of groups on a consolidated basis

Article L613-21-7

I. - When the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution is consulted by the authority of another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, resp…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility

Article L22-10-78

In companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market, the corporate governance report referred to in Article L. 226-10-1 includes the information, where applicable adapted for s…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Relations between credit institutions and their customers

Article L312-1-7

I. - There is no charge for closing any deposit or passbook account.II. - Credit institutions shall make documentation relating to banking mobility available to their customers, free of charge and unc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility

Article L22-10-76

I.-In companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market, the remuneration of the executive director(s) and the remuneration of the members of the supervisory board are determined in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4 : Smoothing or spreading devices

Article 75-0 B

At the option of taxpayers with agricultural profits subject to an actual taxation system, the agricultural profit used as the basis for the progressive tax is equal to the average of the profits for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Local bodies

Article R6147-7-1

The Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris Institutional Medical Commission may delegate all or some of the following powers to the local Institutional Medical Commission of a group of hospitals or of…

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