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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General rules governing UCITS

Article L214-8-9

The management company is required to make the declarations stipulated in articles L. 225-126 and L. 233-7 of the French Commercial Code, for all shares held by the mutual funds it manages. The provis…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General rules governing UCITS

Article L214-8-3

In all cases where the provisions relating to companies and financial securities require the surname, first names and domicile of the holder of the security to be indicated, and for all transactions c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for processing applications

Article R1142-63-8

…the manufacturer or manufacturers of the medicinal product concerned and the other persons referred to in Article L. 1142-2 to whom the applicant wishes to enforce the procedure, as well as the social…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Composition and content of the plan

Article R4251-8-1

…rms of the economical management of space and the fight against the artificialisation of land, territorialised rules ensure that the objectives are applied to the different parts of the region identif…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Amending and cancelling declarations

Article R6351-8-1

…prenticeship training course for the first time, it must send a copy of its articles of association to the Regional Prefect within thirty days. This provision applies to the private legal entities men…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Remuneration and social protection

Article R6422-8-1

…as part of the skills development plan, the mobilisation of the personal training account, a leave to validate acquired experience or retraining or promotion through work-linked training, the hours d…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Supervision on a consolidated basis by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and college of supervisors

Article R613-3-8

The joint decisions referred to in II and III of Article L. 613-20-4 are updated annually.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-12

…who orders the entry in the file, even if the supervision measure was ordered by the liberty and custody judge.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Secure detention

Article R53-8-55

…as well as the conditions under which the detainees' lawyers and the judicial authority have access to information relating to the care of the persons concerned and the course of the detention measure…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Granting of exploitation licences and collection of income from the exploitation of rights

Article L324-8-4

…e approved collective management organisation immediately implements appropriate publicity measures to inform the rightholders concerned of the fact that it is entitled to negotiate a contract authori…

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