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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Approvals and changes to shareholdings

Article R784-5

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases

Article R3841-1

Chapter I bis of Title III of Book I of Part Three is applicable in French Polynesia and, with the exception of article R. 3131-22, in New Caledonia in the version resulting from decree no. 2021-453 o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Business project support contract

Article R5142-3

For the purposes ofArticle L. 242-1 of the Social Security Code, and notwithstanding the provisions of the sixth paragraph of Article R. 242-1 of this code, the income corresponding to the receipts (e…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Setting the number of students

Article R4381-7

When the Minister responsible for health plans to fix for one or more academic years the number of students to be admitted to the first year of studies in the training institutes or schools for the pr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Application for marketing authorisation or registration

Article D5141-55

…referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products and repealing Directive 2001/82/EC; b) A veterinar…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Provisions adapting Book VI.

Article L916-1

The 4° of III of Article L. 643-11 does not apply to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Challenging the measures imposed

Article L733-12

…ke a provisional order for the execution of one or more of the measures mentioned in Article L. 733-11. He may cause a call for creditors to be published. He may verify, even of his own motion, the va…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Combating mental illness

Article L3844-1

…in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, subject to the adaptations provided for in II.Articles L. 3211-11-1, L. 3211-2-3, L. 3211-12-1, L. 3211-12-7, L. 3212-5, L. 3212-7, L. 3212-8, L. 3214-1, L. 321…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Membership and operation of professional associations of banking and payment services intermediaries

Article L519-15

…representatives, directors, staff and agents of the associations referred to in I of Article L. 519-11 of this Code are bound by professional secrecy in the context of the tasks referred to in I, unde…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Composition and formation

Article LO6221-1

…aration obligations applicable to the persons mentioned, respectively, in 2° and 3° of I of Article 11 of Law no. 2013-907 of 11 October 2013 on transparency in public life.

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