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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Intervention by the fund in the event of the withdrawal of an insurance undertaking's administrative authorisation

Article L421-10-1

…ions for the last financial year, within the meaning of Council Directive 91/674/EEC of 19 December 1991 on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of insurance undertakings, relating to contrac…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Preliminary title

Article D1-1

The terms of application of II to IV of Article 28 of Organic Law No. 2011-333 of 29 March 2011 on the Human Rights Defender are specified by this article. I.-The proposal for a settlement made by the…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Election of members of territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R713-66

I.-At the time of each general renewal, the regional chamber of commerce and industry and the territorial chamber of commerce and industry carry out an economic weighting study, each insofar as it is…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 12: Notice

Article R5121-149

…ed. For medicinal products included on the list referred to in Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004, the package leaflet must, in ad…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Financial provisions

Article L4425-22

…on the tax status of Corsica, calculated in accordance with 3° of B of IX of article 60 of law no. 2019-1479 of 28 December 2019 on finance for 2020 ;4° bis The fraction of excise duty on tobacco men…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 61

…to sign the report, this is noted on the report. The judicial police officers designated in Article 20 may also hear, under the supervision of a judicial police officer, any persons likely to provide…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2-1

…y, officers of the judicial police and deputy officers of the judicial police mentioned in articles 20 and 21 (1°) are empowered to enter premises for professional use, as well as their annexes and ou…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Possibilities for grouping company pension savings plans

Article L224-27

Notwithstanding article L. 224-20, when a collective company retirement savings plan is set up, the company may decide, under the conditions mentioned in article L. 224-14, to set up compulsory paymen…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Effect on insurance contracts of the requisition of goods and services.

Article L160-6

…he limits of the requisition, and to the extent of the liability of the State as defined in article 20 of order no. 59-63 of 6 January 1959.The suspension provided for in the preceding paragraphs does…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IX: Special schemes

Article 296 ter

…granted or a State grant awarded under the conditions provided for in Articles R. 372-1 and D. 372-20 to D. 372-24 of the French Construction and Housing Code or under the conditions set out in Artic…

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