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Showing 23012310 of 6073 articles for Art. 28 March 2012

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Approval of AIFM established in a third country

Article L532-41

Any dispute arising between the Autorité des marchés financiers and the AIFM established in a third country of which France is the reference Member State shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Fr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for taking up the activity of financial investment adviser

Article L541-2

…well as the professional competence requirements set by the general regulations of the Autorité des marchés financiers.Financial investment advisers must be ordinarily resident or established in Franc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors.

Article L822-16

…ining the opinion of the Haut Conseil du Commissariat aux Comptes. The opinions of the Autorité des marchés financiers and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution are also required for th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3° : Property damaged or unavailable outside France

Article 766

…e shall apply to successions opened and not declared before the publication of law no. 63-254 of 15 March 1963.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Legal system for acts taken by municipal authorities and contentious actions

Article L2541-23

…acts of the communes of the Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments that were enforceable on 3 March 1982, the date of publication of the loi n° 82-213 du 2 mars 1982 relative aux droits et liber…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title IV: Provisions applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R541-1

This Book, in the version in force at the time of publication of Decree no. 2010-217 of 3 March 2010 , is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands. Articles R. 511-2 and R. 512-9 are applicable in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Shareholding and control.

Article D214-32-7-1

…ear in a register to which the FIA or its management company may have access;3° To the Autorité des marchés financiers.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Gas distribution and transport (R).

Article R2333-117

…oportion to the change in the engineering index, defined in a notice in the Official Journal of 1st March 1974, measured over the twelve months preceding the publication of the index known on 1st Janu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Establishments and organisations authorised to combat tuberculosis

Article D3112-10

…ance report for the previous year to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency before 31st March each year, in accordance with a model laid down by order of the Minister for Health.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Pharmacovigilance notification and reporting

Article R5141-107

…Medicines Agency in Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal produ…

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