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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Accounting obligations applicable to certain traders.

Article L123-28-1

…t if they do not employ any employees and have registered their total and temporary cessation of activity with the Trade and Companies Register. The exemption no longer applies if the business is resu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28-1-1

…State. II.-To carry out the duties mentioned in I, financial police officers have the same prerogatives and the same obligations as those attributed to judicial police officers, including when these…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions relating to the creation process

Article D331-25-1

…es in the game are awarded as follows: 1° The violence is disproportionate and gratuitous: 1 point; 2° The violence is crude and detailed in a visually realistic environment: 1 point; 3° If the sequen…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Disciplinary proceedings before the Enforcement Committee

Article R232-98-2

Sports federations and professional leagues shall be bound by confidentiality and may not disclose to any person the content of documents sent to them pursuant to this section before the publication p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Registration of account information service providers

Article L522-11-2

…cle L. 522-7-1 and I of Article L. 522-8 and that the persons declared to be in charge of its effective management and, where the account information service provider carries out hybrid activities wit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to portfolio management companies

Article L533-22-1

…on the publication of sustainable investment and sustainability risk information and amending Directive (EU) 2016/2341, portfolio management companies shall include information on the risks associated…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for the extension of agreements.

Article L2261-23-1

In order to be extended, the branch agreement or professional agreement must, unless justified, include the specific stipulations mentioned in Article L. 2232-10-1 for undertakings with fewer than fif…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for admission to the profession.

Article L812-2-1

The list mentioned in Article L. 812-2 is divided into sections corresponding to the jurisdiction of each court of appeal.Where the mandataire judiciaire is an employee, it specifies that capacity and…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Appeals against refusal of travel authorisations

Article D312-7-2

The Deputy Director of Visas may either reject the appeal or instruct the national ETIAS unit to issue the requested travel authorisation. He may delegate his signature to officials under his authorit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The High Council for Financial Stability

Article L631-2-1

Without prejudice to the respective powers of the institutions that its members represent, the Haut Conseil de stabilité financière supervises the financial system as a whole, with the aim of preservi…

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