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Showing 27512760 of 3081 articles for Art. 26 sept. 2001

French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Examination of a person's genetic characteristics and identification of a person by genetic fingerprints

Article 16-11

…ns, or a victim of a natural disaster, or a person who is the subject of a search under the article 26 of law no. 95-73 of 21 January 1995 on security policy and programming and whose death is presume…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-3-1

…y on the activities set out in article L. 321-11 ;7° The associations referred to in article L. 322-26-3.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of directors and shareholders of market undertakings

Article L421-7-1

…of Article 4(1)(36) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, shall be considered as a single position. The AMF may authorise one of the persons ref…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 4: Composite insurance undertakings

Article R352-35

…nimum capital requirement referred to in I are clearly identified in accordance with Article R. 351-26. If the amount of eligible basic own-fund items allocated to one of the activities is insufficien…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Management entrusted to private-law bodies by agreement or convention.

Article L5427-1

…of the same code; c) (Repealed) ; d) By the social welfare fund provided for byorder no. 77-1102 of 26 September 1977 extending and adapting various provisions relating to social affairs to the Depart…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Single subsection: Restricted traffic zones

Article D2213-1-0-2

…sion mobility zone studied in application of the second paragraph of 3° of II of the article L. 229-26 of the Environment Code. III.-Municipalities or public establishments of inter-municipal cooperat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article R4462-1

…d explosives;3° In pyrotechnic decontamination sites covered byarticle 1 of decree no. 2005-1325 of 26 October 2005 as amended relating to safety rules applicable to work carried out as part of a pyro…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
3. Holidays.

Article R6152-35

…the organisation decided in accordance with the provisions of the last paragraph of article R. 6152-26, the taking of days off during certain periods of the year depending on activity.In order to take…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Approvals

Article L321-10

…l and the status of its shareholders or, in the case of the companies referred to in Article L. 322-26-1, the mutual insurers and associations referred to in Article L. 211-8 of the Mutual Code and th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to investment firms

Article L531-4

…raph 1 of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, or an insurance company or an undertaking for collective investment and which meets on…

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