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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L512-1-1

The following are exempt from the obligations set out inArticle L. 823-19 of the French Commercial Code: a) Persons and entities affiliated, within the meaning of Article L. 512-92, to a caisse d'épar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Payment service providers

Article L521-1

…When they provide payment services, the following institutions and services are also considered to be payment service providers, without being subject to the provisions of Chapter II of this Title an…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Relations with the statutory auditors

Article L612-43

…rôle prudentiel et de résolution may, when the situation so warrants and under conditions laid down by decree, appoint an additional auditor to the undertakings mentioned in A of I of Article L. 612-2…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Creation

Article L5211-5-1

The articles of association of a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation mention in particular: a) The list of communes that are members of the establishment; b) The seat of the establishm…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmaceutical products

Article L5541-5

…7-2 first paragraph, L. 5411-1, L. 5411-2, L. 5411-3, L. 5412-1, L. 5413-1 and L. 5425-1 are applicable in French Polynesia and New Caledonia, subject to the following amendments: a) In Articles L. 54…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Deletion of data from the file

Article R50-64

…letion of the data entered therein: a) On expiry of the time limits laid down in Article 706-25-6 ; b) When informed of one of the decisions mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of Article 706-25-6;…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in the overseas departments, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article R250-1

For their application in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon:a) (Repealed);b) (Repealed);c) (Repealed);d) (Repealed);e) (Repealed);f) (Repealed);g) (Repealed);h) The words: "préfet de département" are replaced b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Radon management in establishments open to the public

Article D1333-32

Establishments open to the public to which the provisions of this paragraph apply are :1° Educational establishments, including boarding schools;2° Establishments for the collective care of children u…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Transmission of information.

Article R5323-8

Each year, before 31 March of the following year, the private-sector organisation providing job placement services must submit the following information to the Prefect, in accordance with a model laid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Classification of medical devices

Article R5211-7

For the purposes of this Title, medical devices other than active implantable medical devices are divided into four classes known as Class I, Class IIa, Class IIb and Class III. Whether a device belon…

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