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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Responsibility of the competent authorities

Article L532-44

Where the AMF is the competent authority of the home Member State of an AIFM established in a third country and considers that the AIFM is not complying with the rules falling within its remit, it sha…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Responsibility of the competent authorities

Article L532-45

The Autorité des marchés financiers may, at the request of the European Securities and Markets Authority:1° Prohibit the marketing, in the European Union, of units or shares of AIFs managed by manager…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Liability insurance.

Article R124-2

…representative for the recovery and liquidation of companies;3° Lawyer registered with a French bar;4° Avocat au Conseil d'Etat et à la Cour de cassation ;5° Avoué près les cours d'appel ;6° Statutory…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Rules for use and hygiene applicable to collective water misting systems

Article R1335-19

…g provided for in 2° of this article, monitoring of the quality of the water supplied to the system;4° Implementing the necessary measures, which may involve shutting down the system, in order to prev…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Procedure before the liberty and custody judge

Article R3211-36

…ble for the patient's legal protection or, if the patient is a minor, to his legal representatives; 4° To the public prosecutor. The court registry shall inform the parties that the documents sent by…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Supervision of groups on a consolidated basis

Article L613-20-4

I. - When, as the authority responsible for supervision on a consolidated basis, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution receives an application for authorisation to use an internal risk…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Life insurance and capitalisation operations

Article A132-9-6

…e policyholder has been identified as deceased under the scheme provided for in article L. 132-9-2; 4° Number of contracts for which the policyholder has been identified as deceased under the scheme p…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter III: REPUBLICAN INTEGRATION

Article R413-8

…r, their professional integration and their reception and integration conditions pursuant to 3° and 4° of article L. 413-3 and to assess their French language skills under the conditions set out in ar…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2 undecies: Companies located in dynamic urban areas

Article 44 sexdecies

…l median of median incomes;3° The unemployment rate of the commune is higher than the national rate;4° 70% of the population of each public inter-communal cooperation establishment lives in communes f…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41-1

…rning may only be issued if the damage has already been made good or if the measure provided for in 4° is also applied; 2° Referring the offender to a health, social or professional structure; this me…

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