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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-18

…ply with the requirements of I of this article, 3° of I or II of article L. 533-10, articles L. 533-11 to L. 533-12-4 and articles L. 533-24 and L. 533-24-1.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article R92

…s 100 and 706-95 ;10° The costs of searching for and issuing reproductions of all printed documents;11° The costs of implementing secret agreements on cryptology resources or services incurred pursuan…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Election of members of territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R713-66

…udy, each insofar as it is concerned and in accordance with the criteria set out in articles L. 713-11, L. 713-12 and L. 713-13.This study determines, on the one hand, the economic importance of the p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK I: Commerce in general.

Article Annexe VIII

…123-167 et seq indicating the references of the prefectoral approval provided for in article L. 123-11-3 and an extract from the RCS or trade register of the domiciliary, unless the latter is register…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Agreements relating to the exercise of undivided rights in the absence of a usufructuary.

Article 1873-3

The agreement may be concluded for a fixed term which may not exceed five years. It may be renewed by express decision of the parties. Division may only be brought about before the agreed term if ther…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: The Competition Authority.

Article L462-9-1

…eedings which have been the subject of information by the Competition Authority pursuant to Article 11(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2003, the Competition Authority shall inform the European Commission a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Natural mineral waters.

Article L1322-3

A natural mineral spring may be declared to be in the public interest. In this case, it may be assigned a protection perimeter, which may cover separate plots of land. Within this perimeter, all activ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: POWERS

Article L3642-2

I. - 1. Without prejudice to Article L. 2212-2 of this Code and notwithstanding article L. 1311-2 and to the second paragraph of l'article L. 1331-1 du code de la santé publique, the President of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Biomedicine

Article L1418-1

…le genetic tests;10° To issue the authorisations provided for in :a) Articles L. 2141-9 and L. 2141-11-1;b) VIII of article L. 2131-1, the penultimate paragraph of article L. 2131-4 and articles L. 21…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: REVENUE

Article L4331-2

…à l'article L. 312-1 of the code of taxes on goods and services and levied on diesel and petrol in mainland France, the following fractions determined under the conditions provided for in IX of Artic…

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