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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Mutual insurance companies.

Article R322-105

…ect to the provisions of Article L. 322-2-1, mutual insurance companies may only borrow to set up : 1° If their articles of association so provide, the supplementary social fund ; 2° The guarantees th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Identification and verification of customer identity

Article R561-5-1

For the purposes of 2° of I of Article L. 561-5, the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 shall verify the identity of the customer in one of the following ways: 1° By using : a) A means of electro…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial arrangements and legal representation of agencies

Article R1432-55

…lth Agency comprises a breakdown of expenditure by type, in four envelopes devoted respectively to: 1° Staff costs ; 2° Other operating expenditure 3° Capital expenditure 4° Intervention expenditure.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Summons to appear, immediate appearance and deferred appearance

Article 397-2-1

…hirteen years of age, the court shall first rule, after hearing the public prosecutor's submissions and the observations of the minor and his or her lawyer, on whether the minor should be remanded in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XV: Prosecution, investigation and trial of acts of terrorism

Article 706-16-2

…the Code de l'organisation judiciaire may conduct or arrange for the conduct of any useful hearings and investigations, without being able to invoke professional confidentiality. In particular, it may…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Respective responsibilities of the State and the region

Article L4383-2-1

…ber of students or pupils mentioned in this article recruited to meet the needs of the armed forces and their distribution between the institutes or schools in each region are set annually by joint or…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Organisation, operation and control of the guarantee fund.

Article R421-25-1

The guarantee fund is administered by a twelve-member Board of Directors. It comprises : 1° Seven representatives of insurance companies providing property and casualty insurance in the French Republi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Development allowance and equalisation allowance for overseas municipalities

Article L2334-23-1

…rom 2020, the share of the development grant mentioned in the third paragraph of Article L. 2334-13 and intended for the communes of the overseas departments, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, the terr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Admissibility of lists of candidates and individual applications

Article D1441-24-1

The personal data recorded relating to the user of the automated processing is as follows: 1° Surnames, first names and title; 2° The authorisation granted to the user for the appointment of labour tr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Remuneration of the mandataire judiciaire and the liquidator

Article A663-21-1

The fee provided for in Article R. 663-24 for drawing up statements of wage claims (number 5 of Table 4-7) is set at €112.86 per employee.

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