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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Supervision of the financial system, cooperation and exchanges of information on national territory

Article L785-12

…d in the right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 631-1 Ordinance no. 2020-115 of 12 February 2020 L. 631-2 Law 2013-672 of 26 July 2013 L. 631-2-1, wi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article R4111-15

…tting on the ordinal qualification commissions instituted by article 2 of decree no. 2004-252 of 19 March 2004 relating to the conditions under which doctors of medicine may obtain a specialist qualif…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L561-36

…ntiel et de résolution under the conditions defined in Article L. 561-36-1 ; 2° By the Autorité des marchés financiers in respect of the collective investment management companies referred to in Artic…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application

Article L137-1

For the purposes of Articles L. 137-2 to L. 137-4, a person who provides an online public communication service whose main purpose, or one of whose main purposes, is to store and give the public acces…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L214-127

A société d'investissement à capital fixe, known as a "SICAF", is a public limited company whose purpose is to manage a portfolio of financial instruments, deposits and liquid assets, allowing direct…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Electronic identification of users of digital health services

Article L1470-2

The use of digital health services requires electronic identification of their users. This electronic identification is based on a means, whether tangible or intangible, which guarantees an appropriat…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Professional requirements

Article L511-2

I.- Distributors of insurance and reinsurance products and their staff whose activities consist of providing recommendations on insurance or reinsurance contracts, presenting, proposing or helping to…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Use of powers in the public interest

Article L515-6

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or the body that keeps the register referred to in I of Article L. 512-1 may take appropriate and non-discriminatory measures to penalise irregular…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 6: Access to the cinema

Article L212-30

When requesting the approval of an access formula in application of article L. 212-27, any cinema exhibitor who achieves more than 25% of admissions or takings in a given catchment area or more than 3…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter I: Provisions specific to Book I

Article L2641-1

For the application of the legislative provisions of Book I to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon:1° In Article L. 2112-4, the words: "of the Member States of the European Union" are replaced by the words: "of…

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