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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions

Article L6324-2

I.-The practice of cosmetic surgery without the authorisation provided for in article L. 6322-1 or when this authorisation is deemed to have lapsed or has been suspended or withdrawn is punishable by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Food, advertising and promotion.

Article L2133-1

…é de régulation professionnelle de la publicité and the Conseil économique, social et environnemental.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Common provisions

Article L4312-13

The members of the nurses' association councils are elected in a single-round majority binominal ballot. Each pair is made up of candidates of different genders. If the Council of the Order has an une…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 7: Functioning of elected representatives' groups

Article L7222-26

The functioning of the elected groups may be the subject of deliberations without the decisions relating to the compensation system for elected representatives being modified on this occasion.The elec…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Financial provisions.

Article L5215-35

…onditions as the allowance paid to the municipalities, in accordance with the provisions of Article L. 2335-3.The loss of revenue that the urban community suffers as a result of the extension from fif…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Mission to encourage the development of legal supply and to monitor the lawful and unlawful use of works and objects protected by copyright or neighbouring rights on electronic communications networks

Article L331-18

…veness of the measures taken by providers of online content-sharing services referred to in Article L. 137-1, with regard to their ability to ensure the protection of works and protected objects, incl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Intermediary parent companies

Article L517-11

…n for the intermediate parent undertaking in the Union in accordance with the provisions of Article L. 613-41. A group whose parent undertaking is established in a third country which carries on busin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation

Article L612-17

…ound by professional secrecy under the conditions and subject to the penalties laid down in Article L. 641-1. II. - This secrecy may not be invoked against1° To the judicial authority acting in the co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Compensation grants

Article L3334-7-1

…ich is equal in 2004, for each department, to the amount due in respect of 2003 pursuant to article L. 3334-7-1 as it stood prior to the Finance Act for 2004 (no. 2003-1311 of 30 December 2003), incre…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Placement and support for jobseekers.

Article L5312-1

…bout schemes for transition between work and retirement, in particular that provided for in Article L. 161-22-1-5 of the Social Security Code, facilitating their geographical and professional mobility…

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