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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia.

Article L940-1

…and L. 322-10 ; 4° Book V, with the exception of articles L. 522-1 to L. 522-40, L. 524-12, L. 524-20 and L. 524-21; 5° Book VI, with the exception of articles L. 622-19, L. 625-9 and L. 670-1 to L.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General rules governing the composition of assets

Article R214-10

The money market instruments referred to in 2° of I of Article L. 214-20 meet the following conditions: 1° They meet at least one of the following criteria: a) They have an issue maturity of up to 397…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Collection of labile blood products.

Article R1222-21

…nor may be taken, under the direction and responsibility of the doctor mentioned in article R. 1222-20, by :1° The medical laboratory technicians mentioned in article L. 4352-2, who took up their duti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to safeguard procedures, receivership, compulsory liquidation and conciliation procedures applicable to credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms.

Article R613-21

The claims referred to in article R. 613-20 are the subject, at the request of the creditors' representative or the liquidator, of the publication, in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et com…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Composition

Article R621-2

…elves to be in a conflict of interest situation pursuant to Article 12 of the aforementioned Act of 20 January 2017, shall be mentioned in the minutes. A member who has not taken part in the deliberat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R5134-17

…h another employer are planned during the course of the contract, in application of article L. 5134-20 ; c) The name of the mentor referred to in articles R. 5134-37 and R. 5134-60 and the organisatio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Central depositories

Article L441-1

…Central securities depositories, within the meaning of 1.1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlemen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Experimentation.

Article R5141-11

…medicinal product containing a pharmacologically active substance covered by Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 laying down Community procedures fo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the administration and prescription of vaccines

Article R6212-2

…bing, the characteristics of vaccine-preventable diseases, the traceability of vaccinations and the main recommendations of the vaccination calendar and, for administration, the normative framework an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28-1-1

…may, regardless of the administration to which they belong, carry out the tasks defined in article 20 in judicial investigations carried out by customs officers or tax officials pursuant to I of arti…

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