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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Issue of the licence and prior declaration

Article R7123-10-1

The licence application must include : 1° The company's unique identification number, together with its articles of association if it is a legal entity; 2° A curriculum vitae indicating, in particular…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: One-stop shop for live performances

Article R7122-18

The employer is deemed to have fulfilled the obligations listed in articles L. 7122-24 and R. 7122-16 when the two parts of the single and simplified declaration contain the following information: 1°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Experimentation.

Article R5141-2

Experiments on veterinary medicinal products within the meaning of article L. 5141-16 are any tests, research or experiments, hereinafter referred to as trials, which are carried out with a view to ob…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Set-off and assignment of claims

Article L211-36

I. - The provisions of this paragraph apply to 1° To financial obligations arising from transactions in financial instruments or in units mentioned in article L. 229-7 of the Environment Code, spot fo…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L211-3

I.-Before the traveller is bound by a contract leading to the preparation of a linked travel service or a corresponding offer, the professional facilitating the linked travel services, including if he…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: LAND ARTIFICIALISATION

Article L2231-1

The mayor of a municipality or the president of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with a local urban development plan, an urban development document in its place or a communal map…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Obligation to provide information on share buy-backs

Article L451-3

I. - Any company whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility subject to the provisions of II of Article L. 433-3 that wishes to buy back its own equit…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Offences common to the various forms of commercial company

Article L247-1

I.-It is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 9,000 euros for the chairmen, directors, managing directors or managers of any company: 1° Failing to mention in the annual report presente…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Supervision of groups on a consolidated basis

Article L613-21-6-1

Where an authority of another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area responsible for the prudential supervision on a consolidated basis of a group c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Retail distribution.

Article L5424-2

The following constitutes a breach subject to a financial penalty:1° Opening, operating or transferring a pharmacy without holding the licence referred to in article L. 5125-18 or despite the suspensi…

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