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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific rules relating to third-country investment firms

Article D532-41

…té de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, which shall inform the Autorité des marchés financiers: 1° The scale and scope of the services it provides; 2° Where it provides the service referred to in…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application.

Article L145-3

The provisions of this chapter do not apply to emphyteutic leases, except as regards the revision of the rent. However, they shall apply, in the cases provided for in articles L. 145-1 and L. 145-2, t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to the different types of pledge

Article D211-10

…financial securities registered in a shared electronic recording device must be dated and contain :1° The name "Declaration of pledge of a financial securities account" or "Declaration of pledge of f…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Leave to validate acquired experience

Article R6422-5

At the end of a leave of absence for the validation of prior learning, the beneficiary of the leave of absence must, at the request of the employer or of a funding body mentioned in article L. 6316-1,…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R4031-10

…up its own rules of procedure, adopted by a two-thirds majority, which shall set out in particular:1° The rules governing the operation of the General Meeting and the Executive Committee;2° the condi…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Single chapter: Common provisions

Article L621-5

For the application of article L. 412-1 in Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin, the words: "carried out pursuant to article L. 442-4-1 of the French Construction and Housing Code" are replaced by the wo…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Overall operating grant.

Article R2573-50

The allocation of the global operating grant to the communes of French Polynesia is carried out under the conditions set out in articles R. 2334-1, R. 2334-3 and R. 2334-9-1 to R. 2334-9-3.

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Supervision of seafarer recruitment

Article R742-39

The formalities set out in articles R. 320-1 to R. 320-5 are deemed to have been completed once the obligations set out in articles 11 to 15-1 of the Maritime Labour Code have been met.

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Other proceedings falling within the jurisdiction of the family affairs judge

Article 1140

The proceedings are oral.At any time during the proceedings, the parties may expressly give their agreement for the proceedings to proceed without a hearing in accordance with the provisions of articl…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3: Procedure applicable in the event of a foreign national being placed under house arrest or in detention

Article L614-7

The provisions of this section apply when the foreign national is subject to house arrest pursuant to article L. 731-1 or to detention pursuant to article L. 741-1, including when these decisions are…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
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