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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Infringements of market transparency

Article L465-3-6

I. - The Financial Public Prosecutor may not initiate public proceedings for the application of the penalties provided for in this section when the Autorité des marchés financiers has served a stateme…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions common to mutual insurance companies with a board of directors and general management and with a supervisory board and management board

Article R322-55-4

I.-The company's Articles of Association determine the rules governing the convening and deliberations of the Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board.1° If the Board of Directors has not met for m…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Special regulations concerning certain assets of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-14-2

I.- The financing bodies referred to in 2°c of article R. 332-2 and the specialised professional funds referred to in 7°d of article R. 332-2 are economic loan funds. II - The assets of economic loan…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Local mining tax

Article 1519

…the conceded product extracted by mine concessionaires, amodiataires and sous-amodiataires of mining concessions, by holders of mining permits and by explorers of oil and combustible gas mines. This…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article L2336-3

…f Intercommunal and Communal Resources) is financed by a levy on the tax resources of intercommunal groupings and communes that do not belong to any tax grouping of their own in metropolitan France an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
General provisions

Article 803-8

I.-Without prejudice to its right to apply to the administrative court pursuant to articles L. 521-1, L. 521-2 or L. 521-3 of the Code of Administrative Justice, any person detained in a prison in app…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-5

The Director General of the Agence nationale de la sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail may impose financial penalties on natural or legal persons producing or market…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: The adversarial process during the preliminary investigation

Article D15-6-3

…ursuant to II of Article 77-2, by a suspected person may be addressed to the Public Prosecutor through their lawyer. In this case, the request may be sent by a secure means of telecommunication in acc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1321-13-5

…onsist of : 1° Removal of easements that have become irrelevant, or that the administration has recognised as unnecessary or inapplicable; 2° Removal or addition of one or more plots from the close pr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Temporary authorisation to practise for specialist doctors and dental surgeons who hold a diploma allowing them to practise in their country of origin

Article R4111-35

…cialist practitioner authorised to carry out his activity within the scope of the present section signs a hosting agreement with the host health establishment and the person governed by public or priv…

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