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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2

…for the purpose of distributing electronic money in France within the meaning of Article L. 525-8 ; 2° The undertakings referred to in articles L. 310-1 and L. 310-2 of the Insurance Code; 2° bis Inst…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Medical auxiliaries.

Article L4423-2

By way of derogation from the provisions of article L. 4311-2, the senior administrator of the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands may, on a proposal from the director of the health agency, aut…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Group retirement savings plan

Article R3334-1-2

…time of authorisation under articles L. 214-3 and L. 214-24-24 of the Monetary and Financial Code; 2° No later than two years prior to the exit date of the collective retirement savings plan, at leas…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special mortgages

Article 2404

The holder of the claim referred to in 7° of Article 2402 conserves its mortgage by the double registration made: 1° By the author of the police order issued pursuant to chapitre Ier du titre Ier du l…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-29-1

Shares with a par value less than or equal to an amount set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat and not admitted to trading on a regulated market may be consolidated notwithstanding any legislative or sta…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Genetically modified organisms

Article R412-20

…iament and of the Council of 22 September 2003, as amended, on genetically modified food and feed ; 2° The provisions of paragraphs 1 to 4 and 6 to 8 of Article 4, paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of Article 5 a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Commissions

Article D2315-29

…iteria, the following thresholds: 1° The number of fifty employees at the end of a financial year ; 2° The amount stipulated in 2° of article R. 612-1 of the French Commercial Code for the annual reso…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Financial allocations paid by France Compétences

Article R6123-26

…on relating to skills development aid for companies with fewer than fifty employees, referred to in 2° of I of Article R. 6123-25, to skills operators on the basis of the number of member companies wi…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Installation aid

Article R444-23

…who have not received : 1° Any aid of this type during the five calendar years prior to setting up; 2° A total sum in excess of €210,000 in net taxable profits or salaries during the last three closed…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Suspensive arrangements

Article 277 A

…s clearance, warehouses and temporary storage areas, import or export warehouses, inward processing;2° The supply of goods intended to be placed under one of the following arrangements:a. The suspensi…

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