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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Compulsory sureties covered by the surety guarantee mechanism.

Article D313-26

Pursuant to article L. 313-50, the surety guarantee mechanism covers surety commitments granted by a credit institution or finance company authorised in France under: 1° Article 1799-1 of the Civil Co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Master and feeder UCITS

Article L214-22-5

…an Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall immediately inform the competent authorities of that Member State or State…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Overall operating grant

Article L1613-1

…30 December 2008 on amending finances for 2008 and 1.2.4.2 and II du 6 de l'article 77 de la loi n° 2009-1673 du 30 décembre 2009 de finances pour 2010.In 2012, this amount is equal to €41,389,752,000…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Master and feeder UCITS

Article L214-22

…his article.II. - A master UCITS is a French or foreign UCITS approved in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 which meets the following c…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Exploitation on on-demand audiovisual media services

Article L232-1

…absence of a professional agreement made compulsory within one month of the publication of law no. 2009-669 of 12 June 2009 promoting the dissemination and protection of creativity on the internet, t…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: General information.

Article 38

…d in Article L. 2352-1 of the same Code; 2° Goods covered by articles 2 and 3 of Act no. 92-1477 of 31 December 1992 relating to products subject to certain movement restrictions and to complementarit…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Pre-contractual information, commercial practices, contracts and credit

Article L511-7

…r the operation of air services in the Community; 3° Article 3(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 924/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009, as amended, on cross-border…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2573-27

The municipalities must provide drinking water and wastewater services by 31 December 2024 at the latest. The communes shall submit a provisional equipment and upgrading plan relating to drinking wate…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: General rules governing general-purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-33

…shareholders. Notwithstanding article L. 225-96 of the Commercial Code and 3° of article L. 214-24-31 of this Code, this meeting may be held without a quorum being required on first call. Notwithstan…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Mutual recognition procedure.

Article R5141-47-3

…State, the other States concerned, the applicant and the coordination group referred to in Article 31 of Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. In addition, if the Direct…

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