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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Central services and inspection

Article L1421-3-1

I.-The officers mentioned in article L. 1421-1 may be authorised by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Health and, where applicable, the minister(s) responsible for the management or supervision of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-20

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings may, for internal modelling purposes, refer to a time horizon or use a risk measure other than those provided for in Article R. 352-2, provided that the results…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions relating to the control of groups

Article R356-1

…n Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority in accordance with Article 21 of Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 of 24 November 2010. The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution in its capacity…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Operations of strategic interest to the French economy abroad

Article R442-11-3

…ablished in France.II. - The transaction covered by the guarantee represents an amount in excess of 10 million euros.III. - The guarantee may only be granted if it is necessary to substantially improv…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Liability for insufficient assets.

Article L651-4

…o or at the request of one of the persons mentioned in article L. 651-3, the president of the court may instruct the juge-commissaire or, failing this, a member of the court designated by him to obtai…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-28

…ion period. A copy of this decision is simultaneously sent to the Minister of Defence. The decision may contain special provisions authorising, under certain conditions, the filing abroad of applicati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Legal structures

Article L6223-8

…practice of medical biologists created prior to the date of promulgation of Law no. 2013-442 of 30 May 2013 on the reform of medical biology and which, on this date, do not comply with I of this arti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Information on business papers.

Article R123-238

…"société européenne" or the initials "SE"; b) A statement of the amount of the share capital, which may be rounded down to the nearest whole number. In the event of a capital increase resulting from t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Conciliation and referral

Article R1454-14

The conciliation and referral office may, notwithstanding any procedural exception and even if the defendant does not appear, order: 1° The issue, where applicable, under penalty of a fine, of work ce…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: General principles

Article A823-5

…include the main elements of the planning and, in accordance with the provisions of Article R. 823-10 of the Commercial Code, form part of the statutory auditor's file. Article.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT00…

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