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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.

Article L310-12-2

…st, authorise service providers responsible for labelling contracts open to individual subscription and settlements eligible for a contribution from local authorities and their public establishments p…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.

Article L310-12-3

In periods of extreme instability in the financial markets, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution takes into account the possible pro-cyclical effects of its actions.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Provisions specific to natural persons

Article R123-121-1

Under his own responsibility, the natural person shall file in the forms provided for in article R. 123-102, at the time of his application for registration, a certificate of delivery of the informati…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to the recognition and enforcement by the French judicial authorities of a European Investigation Order issued by another Member State

Article D47-1-12

If the investigation decision has not been issued or validated by a judicial authority, or if it has not been drafted or translated into French, or if Annex A is not complete, the decision is returned…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Freedom to provide services

Article R4331-12-2

…er on a special list. The Prefect will send the applicant a receipt showing the registration number and, in the case of partial access, the professional title under which he is authorised to practise…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-2

I.-For the purposes mentioned in 9° of I of Article L. 821-1, the High Council shall, at their request, communicate the information or documents that it holds or that it collects to the authorities of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-4

For the purposes mentioned in the two preceding articles, the High Council is exempt from the application of the provisions of loi n° 68-678 du 26 juillet 1968 relative à la communication de documents…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-5

…concurrence, the Banque de France, the European System of Central Banks, the European Central Bank and the European Systemic Risk Board, where such information is intended for the performance of thei…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-3

…he authorities of non-EU Member States exercising powers similar to its own, subject to reciprocity and on condition that the authority concerned is subject to professional secrecy with the same guara…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession.

Article L821-12-1

…ovided for in Article L. 821-9 inform the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23 of the Monetary and Financial Code.

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