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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L621-22

…ed in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on specific requirements for statutory audits of public interest entities and repealin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Financial provisions.

Article L5214-23

…is share may be collected by the community of municipalities instead of the municipality if this is decided by mutual agreement between the grouping and the municipality concerned under the conditions…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-138

…for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products) in connection with this writing, are laid down by decision of the Director General of the Agency. 2° The qualitative and quantitative composition in a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article R5124-3-1

…within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use and repealing Directive 2001/20…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-3

…out by the joint statutory auditors: -correspond to those defined at the time of the allocation or decided at the time of the reassessment of the risk of material misstatement at the assertion level;…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Reporting and information requirements

Article L561-22

…officers or the authorities mentioned in Article L. 561-17 when they have, in good faith, made the declaration provided for in Article L. 561-15 under the conditions prescribed by the applicable legi…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-6

…r otherwise, regardless of the number of days of filming scheduled for each week. Exceptionally, by decision of the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, this maximum durati…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L1614-4

The costs referred to in article L. 1614-1 are compensated by the transfer of State taxes, by the resources of the Fonds de compensation de la fiscalité transférée and, for the balance, by the allocat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article L2334-5

…built properties, excluding the compensation mentioned in c of 1° and b of 2° of C of IV of Article 16 of Finance Act no. 2019-1479 for 2020; > 2° The sum of: a) The proceeds determined by applying th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: National register of persons prohibited from managing assets

Article R128-6

…f the national police, individually designated and specially authorised, either by the heads of the decentralised services of the national police, or by the heads of the services of the police prefect…

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