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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Position limits

Article L420-15

Position limits and position management controls shall be transparent and non-discriminatory, shall state how they apply to persons and shall take into account the nature and composition of market par…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Central body for savings banks and banques populaires

Article L512-108

…filiated institution or company takes decisions that do not comply with directly applicable laws, regulations or European provisions relating to banking and financial activities or with the instructio…

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

Article L533-12-5

Investment service providers, other than asset management companies, shall ensure that they do not remunerate or assess the performance of their employees in a way that undermines their duty to act in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Trade union section representative

Article L2142-1-4

In companies employing fewer than fifty employees, trade unions which are not representative in the company and which form a trade union section may appoint, for the duration of their mandate, a membe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Employees who have requested that elections be organised.

Article L2411-6

…to dismiss is required, for a period of six months, for an employee who has asked the employer to organise elections to the social and economic committee or to agree to organise these elections. This…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Implementing provisions

Article L3121-68

Those provisions of the decrees provided for in article L. 3121-67 relating to the organisation and distribution of working hours within the week, rest periods, the conditions for recourse to standby…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to the establishment of a relay facility

Article R311-16

Where the assets and liabilities of several persons subject to resolution proceedings have been transferred to the same bridge institution, the winding-up proceedings referred to in Chapter VI of Titl…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 4: Provisions specific to unwritten contracts concluded by purchasing card

Article R2321-7

…t prejudice to the provisions of article R. 2121-7, for non-written contracts concluded by purchasing card, the purchaser shall verify, after their conclusion and at least quarterly, that the value of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Mergers, demergers and partial contributions of assets

Article L236-29

The company or companies benefiting from the contributions resulting from the transaction referred to in Article L. 236-27 and the company contributing part of its assets shall be jointly and severall…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Voluntary sales of furniture by public auction.

Article L321-32

…ioned in article L. 321-29 may not describe, present, estimate or put up for sale any property belonging to him, nor may he acquire, directly or indirectly on his own account, any property in the publ…

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