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

Article R214-97

An undertaking for collective real estate investment may not hold more than 20% of the same category of financial instruments mentioned in 4°, 6° and 7° of the I of article L. 214-36 and in article R.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Expertise procedure

Article R1142-63-16

…of the person's condition requires a new assessment of the damage, this person or his beneficiaries may ask the college of experts to issue a new opinion. The claim is investigated under the condition…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Loans taken out and guarantees granted by the network's establishments.

Article R712-31

The authorisation of the acts mentioned in 2° of Article R. 712-7 is valid for a period of one year from the date of approval of the deliberations relating to these acts. At the end of this period, if…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Authorisation for bodies without a public accountant to allocate and pay expenditure relating to the remuneration of vocational training trainees

Article D1611-27

The authorisation provided for in III of article L. 1611-7 intended to enable organisations without a public accountant to be entrusted with the allocation and payment of expenditure relating to the r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article D48-20

…c prosecutor is considering applying the provisions set out in 1° of Article D. 48-22 or 4°, 6° and 7° of Article D. 48-23, it shall inform the competent authority of the issuing State without delay b…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Designation of a registrant and a correspondent

Article R561-28

By way of derogation from Articles R. 561-23 and R. 561-24, the persons mentioned in 1° to 6° and 7°a of Article L. 561-2 who belong to the same group within the meaning of Article L. 561-33 may agree…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation of the system for combating money laundering and terrorist financing

Article R561-38-2

The persons mentioned in 1° to 7°c of Article L. 561-2 may entrust an external service provider with the performance, in their name and on their behalf, of all or part of the activities relating to th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Public policy

Article D3131-3

…d of eleven consecutive hours for employees who do not work to a collective timetable, the employer may set a daily period for the establishment, workshop, department or team within the meaning of art…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Business project support contract

Article R5142-3

…by the activity of the beneficiary of the support contract and to the remuneration provided for in 7° of article 1 of decree no. 2005-505 of 19 May 2005 relating to the business project support contr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General duties

Article R4312-1

…eq. and to the student nurses referred to in article L. 4311-12. In accordance with article L. 4312-7, the Conseil national de l'ordre des infirmiers is responsible for ensuring that all nurses on its…

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