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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Statutory auditors

Article L511-38

Each credit institution, finance company or investment firm is audited by at least two statutory auditors, under the conditions defined in Book VIII of the Commercial Code. These statutory auditors mu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Central bodies

Article L511-31

The central bodies represent the credit institutions and finance companies affiliated to them in their dealings with the Banque de France and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution. They…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Central bodies

Article L511-32

Without prejudice to the powers of documentary and on-the-spot control conferred on the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution over the institutions and companies affiliated to them, the cen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial conglomerates

Article L517-3

…ator of the conglomerate or the coordinator likely to be designated in accordance with Article L. 633-2 for the supplementary supervision of the sub-group may, by a reasoned decision, submit the sub-g…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Formal requirements.

Article L2231-3

The agreement must be in writing, failing which it is null and void.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Fixing procedures.

Article L3232-3

The minimum monthly remuneration is equal to the product of the amount of the minimum growth wage as set in application of articles L. 3231-2 to L. 3231-12, multiplied by the number of hours correspon…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Departmental councils

Article L4312-3

…ount the number of nurses on the most recently published register. III. - Articles L. 4123-1, L. 4123-2, L. 4123-7, L. 4123-8, L. 4123-10 to L. 4123-12 and L. 4123-16 are applicable to nurses under co…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Production advances

Article 311-65

Advances may be granted to production companies which, either in respect of audiovisual works they have previously produced during the current year, or in respect of new audiovisual works for which th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Production advances

Article 311-67

The maximum amount of advances that may be granted to a production company during a financial year is determined on the basis of the sum entered, at the beginning of the current year, in the audiovisu…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Production advances

Article 311-68

For the production of a given work, the advance is allocated and its amount fixed after evaluation of the financial situation of the production company, taking into account the investment allocations…

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