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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title VI: Obligations relating to the fight against money laundering, the financing of terrorist activities and prohibited lotteries, games and betting

Article R563-1

The first decision to prohibit the transfer of funds against an online gaming or betting operator that holds neither an exclusive right nor the authorisation referred to in Article 21 of Law 2010-476…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Powers and funding of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee

Article R1432-70-1

In order to implement the powers of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee in the field of health, safety and working conditions, the members of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee or, wh…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Psychiatric care arrangements

Article R3844-11

Articles R. 3211-7 to R. 3211-30 are applicable in New Caledonia, in the version resulting from decree no. 2014-897 of 15 August 2014 relating to the judicial procedure for the release and review of n…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Community of communes

Article L5214-16

…f and communal map; 2° Economic development actions under the conditions set out in article L. 4251-17 ; creation, development, maintenance and management of industrial, commercial, tertiary, craft, t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Provisions specific to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Article R917-18

…of a declaration on their honour, that they meet the conditions laid down in C of I of article R. 917-17. "Each candidate from the college representing activities in the trades and crafts sector cert…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative penalties

Article L6241-2

…or the offences mentioned in 1°, 2°, 4° in the case of a laboratory, 5°, 6°, 10°, 12°, 13°, 14° and 17° of the same article. II. - When the offences mentioned in 2° of I are considered serious or are…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for financial assistance

Article 122-2

…122-17 and 122-18. The Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animé…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Production support

Article 422-22

…321-17 ; 4° To the production of video games, as provided for by art…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-28

…thin CN code 0401" of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013, as amended, on the common organisation of the markets in agricultural products for…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Police

Article L2573-19

I.-The provisions of Chapter III of Title I of Book II of Part Two mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand colu…

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