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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-3-12

…g with a team or use the equipment of a club or member of another signatory organisation during the last two months of the suspension or during the last quarter of the suspension, whichever is shorter…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Preparation, preservation and use of tissues, cells and their derivatives.

Article L1243-2

…placental blood cells and cord and placental cells collected under the conditions mentioned in the last paragraph of article L. 1241-1 may be prepared, stored, distributed or transferred. Each of the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 10: Revolving credit

Article L312-71

…e, the cost of insurance; 6° The total sums due; 7° The amount of repayments already made since the last renewal, showing the proportion paid in respect of the capital borrowed and the proportion paid…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Administrative police measures

Article L521-1

…article may be determined on the basis of the worldwide turnover excluding tax achieved during the last financial year of the controlled legal entity, without being able to exceed 0.1% of this turnov…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title VI: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R762-3

…lowing words are added: "in accordance with locally applicable legislation and regulations"; 5° The last paragraph of article R. 752-5 and the last paragraph of article R. 753-4 are not applicable; 6°…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: REVENUE

Article L2336-4

…des ressources intercommunales et communales the ratio, increased by 33%, existing according to the last population census between the population of the overseas departments, New Caledonia, French Pol…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Judgment of compulsory liquidation.

Article R641-8

…the terms of II of this article, as well as:1° Those of articles L. 812-2, L. 814-5, L. 814-10, the last paragraph of II of article L. 641-1, articles L. 641-8, R. 814-24 and R. 814-38, if the liquida…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds

Article R2335-2

…e first part: i) To municipalities receiving the first part whose population, as resulting from the last census, is less than 200 inhabitants. For these communes, the amount of the allocation paid und…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Currency

Article R734-4

…d'outre-mer" and the words: "and which are published by the Banque de France" are deleted;b) In the last paragraph, the words: "The Banque de France" are replaced by the words: "The Institut d'émissio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Composition and management of the plan.

Article R3332-21-1

…conomy, represent at least 66% of all operating expenses in the company's income statement over the last three financial years ended ; 2° The ratio between, on the one hand, the sum of the dividends a…

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