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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-48-2

I. - The determination that a person referred to in I of Article L. 613-34 or a group is in the situation referred to in 3° of I of Article L. 613-48-1 shall be made by the collège de résolution with…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-48-1

I. - The resolution board shall take the measures referred to in I of Article L. 613-48 when it considers that one or more of the following conditions are met: 1° It has been established, prior to the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-48-3

…in the nominal value or conversion of the own funds instruments referred to in I of Article L. 613-48 or, where applicable, of eligible commitments referred to in VII of the same article shall be pre…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-48-5

…shall require, where necessary to carry out a conversion measure referred to in I of Article L. 613-48, that the person concerned issue Tier 1 core capital instruments to holders of additional Tier 1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Operating conditions common to clinical and biological activities involving medically assisted procreation

Article R2142-21-4

Traceability data is kept for forty years after gamete insemination, germ tissue transplant or embryo transfer.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee.

Article R2573-40-1

At the first meeting of the Local Finance Committee following the general renewal of the municipal councils, the representatives of the municipalities present, whether full members or alternates, elec…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee.

Article R2573-40-2

The election of the mayor associated with the chairmanship of the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee and his deputy may be challenged before the French Polynesia Administrative Court by any memb…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee.

Article R2573-40-3

The term of office of the associate mayor chairing the Local Finance Committee and his or her deputy is the same as their term of office as mayor. The deputy mayor of the associate mayor chairing the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Absence due to illness or accident.

Article L1226-1-4

Workers declared unfit in application of article L. 4624-4 or for whom the occupational physician has identified a risk of unfitness as part of the pre-resumption examination mentioned in article L. 4…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Foreign nationals doing a work placement in an establishment or undertaking of the group employing them

Article R*421-52

…obtaining a temporary residence permit bearing the wording "ICT intern" provided for in article L. 421-30 constitutes a decision to reject. However, silence with regard to an application for a visa f…

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