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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Relocation of film screenings

Article L212-18

…L. 212-2. The content, filing procedures and regist…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Antenatal diagnostics: prenatal diagnosis and pre-implantation diagnosis

Article R2441-1

…2006, No. 2014-32 of 14 January 2014 and No. 2017-808 of 5 May 2017, with the exception of Articles R. 2131-2-1 to R. 2131-11 and R. 2131-13 to R. 2131-22 and R. 2131-27 to R. 2131-34, and subject to…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Categories of insurance and statements to be produced.

Article R344-1

I. - The proportion referred to in Article L. 344-1 is a percentage of the value of all investments belonging to the company or the supplementary occupational pension fund and of other assets allocate…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties for non-compliance with the obligation to declare and provide information

Article L7122-16

…ng arts entrepreneur without holding a valid activity declaration receipt as referred to in article L. 7122-3, or that it has not fulfilled the obligations set out in the third paragraph of I of artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-12

…business has not taken place by public auction in accordance with the articles mentioned in article L. 143-11 purchasers wishing to secure themselves from the proceedings of registered creditors are r…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Admission to psychiatric care by decision of the State representative.

Article L3213-1

…hose mental disorders require care and compromise personal safety or seriously undermine public order. Prefectoral orders are reasoned and state precisely the circumstances that made the admission nec…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Reserving contracts for economic operators employing disabled and disadvantaged workers

Article L2113-13-1

…ervices that they provide in prisons and who, in accordance with the conditions set out in articles L. 412-10 to L. 412-18 of the Prison Code, employ prisoners in a minimum proportion set by regulatio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Groupements de coopération sanitaire.

Article L6133-1-1

For the application of 4° of Article L. 6133-1 to army hospitals, the activities mentioned in the list provided for in Article L. 6147-7 are considered to be authorisations held by these hospitals.Aut…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Tax on admission prices to screenings organised by cinema operators

Article L115-1

…L. 212-28 to L. 212-30 and which forms the basis for the allocation o…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Approvals

Article L321-10-1

…n order to grant a reinsurance undertaking the administrative authorisation provided for in Article L. 321-1-1, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution des entreprises d'assurance shall v…

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