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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Reporting obligations

Article L152-3

Credit institutions, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and the bodies and services referred to in article L. 518-1 must provide the tax and customs authorities, at their request, wit…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles.

Article L341-3

Without prejudice to the disclosure rules set out inArticle L. 232-23 of the French Commercial Code, the undertakings referred to in Article L. 341-1, the insurance group companies referred to in Arti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Transmission and execution of requests for mutual assistance

Article 694-3

Requests for mutual assistance from foreign judicial authorities shall be executed in accordance with the procedural rules provided for by this Code. However, if the request for mutual assistance so s…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions

Article L526-3

…lectronic money must not be incompatible with the requirements of the profession, in particular the maintenance of the reputation of the electronic money institution, the primacy of the interests of c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Protection and promotion of maternal and child health.

Article L2421-3

…equested from the departmental maternal and child protection service" are deleted from article L. 2132-1 . II - For its application in Wallis and Futuna, the first sentence of the second paragraph of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Measures to boost audiovisual production

Article 916-34

…ction of health measures, works which, in addition to the conditions set out in 1° to 4° of article 311-29, have been the subject in 2020 of a duly completed and certified acceptance of their final ve…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Regulation of investments and other assets

Article A332-3

The liabilities of an economic loan fund referred to in article R. 332-14-2 may take one of the following forms: 1° Units, giving rise to identical rights to capital and interest, resulting either fro…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Popular savings passbook account.

Article R221-34

…x authorities electronically in order to determine whether the conditions set out in Article R. 221-33 of this Code have been met by the account holder or the person applying to open the account. II.W…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Samples taken from a living person.

Article R1211-3

…anying the donor are reimbursed under the conditions provided for in the first paragraph of article 30 of decree no. 92-566 of 25 June 1992 setting the conditions and procedures for the payment of exp…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Annual activity report for electricity concessions

Article D2224-36

Where the service area of a distribution organisation and a regulated sales tariff supplier coincides with the territory of a single concession, the information required to draw up this report is reco…

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