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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4141-3-1

The Minister for Health or, by delegation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion may, after obtaining the opinion of a commission composed in particular of professionals, individually…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Algorithmic trading activities applicable to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-10-3

In this sub-section and for the purposes of the provisions relating to algorithmic trading : 1° "algorithmic trading" means trading in financial instruments in which a computer algorithm automatically…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Provisions adapting Book I.

Article L921-3-1

For the application in Mayotte of article L. 123-37, farm managers subject to the criterion of the third paragraph of the same article and engaged in marine farming activities are identified separatel…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Profession of pharmacist

Article L4412-3-1

For the application of article L. 4221-17 in Mayotte, the words: "subject to the provisions of article L. 138-9 of the Social Security Code," are replaced by the words: "subject to discounts, rebates…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Agreements.

Article L5132-3-1

The annual agreement on objectives and resources signed with the State, provided for in article L. 5134-19-4, includes a section on the co-financing by the département of the financial assistance prov…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Departmental maternal and child protection service.

Article L2112-3-1

For the application of article L. 2111-2, the departmental services in charge of maternal and child protection may, in the event of a presumption that the childminder is taking in more children than a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L2411-12-3

…hen the commune wishes to dispose of a property transferred from a commune section pursuant to articles L. 2411-11 to L. 2411-12-2 within a period of five years from the date of publication of the tra…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5124-17-3

When the wholesaler-distributor has fulfilled its public service obligations as set out in article L. 5124-17-2, it may sell medicinal products outside the national territory or to wholesale distribut…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Financial provisions

Article L2511-36-1

The special statement for each arrondissement provided for in article L. 2511-37 an investment section for the investment expenditure referred to in the fifth and sixth paragraphs of article L. 2511-1…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Inter-company savings plan.

Article L3333-3-1

When the establishment of an inter-company savings plan between several individual employers or membership of such a plan is not established by virtue of an agreement with the employees, the provision…

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