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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Compensation for contaminated victims.

Article L3122-5

The Office is required to make an offer of compensation to any victim referred to in article L. 3122-1 within a period set by decree, which may not exceed six months from the date on which the Office…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Forward financial instruments of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-56

The amounts provided for in articles R. 332-54 and R. 332-55 are calculated net of the value of guarantees received under an eligible master agreement. An eligible master agreement meets all of the fo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Categories of insurance and statements to be produced.

Article D344-5

I.-The data relating to supplementary social protection, referred to in the fifth paragraph of Article L. 612-24 of the Monetary and Financial Code, are grouped in the following statements, as establi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Bills of exchange

Article L511-41

When the last day of the period allowed for the completion of the act of notification of the non-execution of the money transfer order or postal cheque is a public holiday, this period is extended unt…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: The network of Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Article L712-11-1

Without prejudice to specific legislative provisions, when a private-law or public-law person takes over all or part of the activity of a chamber of commerce and industry, whatever the legal classific…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Mission, conditions of access and exercise and incompatibilities.

Article L811-7-1-A

The court-appointed administrator may practise his profession within the framework of a société pluri-professionnelle d'exercice, provided for in Title IV bis of Law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 re…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title I: GENERAL CONTRACT CONDITIONS

Article R211-5

Where, pursuant to 1° of I of article L. 211-2, a consumer provides the trader with an advantage instead of or in addition to a price, the trader shall explain the nature of this advantage by setting…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Liquidation of the debtor's assets

Article R742-28

The protection litigation judge, at the request of the liquidator, shall determine the price to be paid for the property to be sold, the essential conditions of the sale and the visiting arrangements.…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Property tax on built-up properties

Article 1388 nonies

I.-The basis of assessment for property tax on buildings owned by non-trading property companies in which Poste Immo directly or indirectly holds the entire share capital is subject to a deduction, th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Property tax on undeveloped land

Article 1395 B

I. - Land planted with truffle trees is, with effect from 1 January 1991, exempt from property tax on undeveloped property for the fifteen years following the year in which it was planted, by decision…

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