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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title III: Supervision of the financial system, cooperation, exchange of information and supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates

Article L634-2

…corruption and the modernisation of economic life, by the persons mentioned in 1° to 8° and 10° to 18° of II of Article L. 621-9 of this Code and by the persons mentioned in Article L. 612-2, when th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article R24-21

The distances mentioned in article R. 24-18 are brought to the attention of the protected person, who is given a remote protection device. The protected person is also informed that, if necessary, the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R711-35

…t justifying the choices made with regard to the criteria mentioned in articles L. 711-8 and R. 711-18 and the regional plan for regional planning, sustainable development and equality, mentioned in a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Development grant

Article R2334-5-1

For the application of the provisions of the second paragraph of article L. 2334-18-2, the population of the priority neighbourhoods of the urban policy and the population of the urban free zones take…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Conditions governing the performance of the duties of head of division

Article D6146-7-1

…2003 on pension reform under the conditions set out in article 11 of amended decree no. 2004-569 of 18 June 2004 on the additional public service pension scheme.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to UCITS, debt securitisation funds and property investment funds

Article L231-4

…r any criminal offence of which he is aware, is liable to imprisonment for five years and a fine of 18,000 euros. III. - The directors of the management company or the legal entity acting as custodian…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L211-3

…s service; and 2° Will benefit from protection against insolvency in accordance with Article L. 211-18. In order to comply with this I, the professional facilitating a tied travel service shall provid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5423-8

…ication of article L. 5124-17-2; 6° Failure to send the declarations referred to in article L. 5121-18 to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé by 31 March of the cur…

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

Article L5842-6

…hs) law no. 2006-1771 of 30 December 2006 L. 5211-17-2 law no. 2022-217 of 21 February 2022 L. 5211-18 law no. 2004-809 of 13 August 2004 L. 5211-19 (with the exception of the fourth paragraph) Act no…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Use for professional retraining projects

Article D4163-30-1

…8° Articles R. 6323-15 and R. 6323-16 relating to refusals to cover expenses; 9° Articles D. 6323-18-1 to D. 6323-18-4 relating to payment methods.

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