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Showing 29712980 of 3334 articles for Art. Ordinance no. 2019-359 – 24 Apr. 2019

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Regional hospitals

Article D6141-15

…éans ;22° Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris ;23° Centre hospitalier régional de Pointe-à-Pitre ;24° Centre hospitalier régional de Poitiers ;25° Centre hospitalier régional de Reims ;26° Centre ho…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Liquidation

Article 787 B

…décès, entre vifs ou, en pleine propriété, à un fonds de pérennité mentionné à l'article 177 of law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 relating to the growth and transformation of businesses if the following…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-18

…article, 3° of I or II of article L. 533-10, articles L. 533-11 to L. 533-12-4 and articles L. 533-24 and L. 533-24-1.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Financial allocations paid by France Compétences

Article R6123-25

…o it under 2°, 3° and 4° of I of Article L. 6131-1, less the payment referred to in Article R. 6123-24, and determines the amount of the various allocations as follows:1° Between 5% and 35% to the Cai…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Transparency, restrictive competition practices and other prohibited practices.

Article L443-8

…ycle, the parties are free to determine the revision formula and, pursuant to III of article L. 631-24 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, the indicators used. When the acquisition of the a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 212 bis

…acquired or built by it as part of:1° A public service delegation referred to in Article 38 of Law no. 93-122 of 29 January 1993 relating to the prevention of corruption and the transparency of econo…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IV: Tax intended to finance sickness, invalidity and maternity insurance benefits under the social protection scheme for non-salaried farmers

Article 1613 ter

…7 3 4.22 4 4.74 5 5.8 6 6.86 7 7.91 8 10.02 9 12,13 10 14,23 11 16.34 12 18.45 13 20.56 14 22.67 15 24.78Above fifteen kilograms of added sugar per hectolitre of beverage, the rate applicable per addi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-79-2

…t to a fine.V. - Companies meeting the criteria set out in I of this article or in article L. 22-10-24 and whose supervisory board includes one or more members appointed pursuant to Article L. 225-79…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-5

…ed for a limited market, to comply with the requirements laid down in Article 23 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018;2° The obligation, for the applicant for a marketing authorisation submit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Company mutual funds

Article L214-165

…purpose of the fund is to subscribe to a transaction provided for in articles L. 3332-18 to L. 3332-24 of the Labour Code and to merge into a pre-existing fund governed by this article, the employees…

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