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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-20-5

…instruments and contracts or to measure the performance of investment funds and amending Directives 2008/48/ EC and 2014/17/ EU and Regulation (EU) No 596/2014.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-30

…2 of Article 4, Article 5 and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 566/2008 of 18 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Implementing measures

Article L412-5

…as an ingredient in processed products, on an experimental basis from the publication of Law 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, combating corruption and modernising economic life and until…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Shareholding and control

Article L214-24-21

…l is :1° A small or medium-sized enterprise within the meaning of Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 of 6 August 2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in appli…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES

Article L6264-5

…mmune of Saint-Barthélemy to capital expenditure for the Saint-Barthélemy secondary school between 1997 and 2006 inclusive; this amount is indexed to the growth rate of gross fixed capital formation o…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: Furnished tourist accommodation

Article L324-1

…missions by the national accreditation body mentioned in article 137 of the aforementioned law no. 2008-776 of 4 August 2008 or by any equivalent European body that is a signatory to the multilateral…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Accreditation and quality control

Article L6221-2

…ted, at its request, by the national accreditation body provided for in I of Article 137 of Law No. 2008-776 of 4 August 2008 on the modernisation of the economy, when it meets the criteria defined by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article R5141-47-1

…for variations are examined in accordance with the provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/2008 of 28 November 2008 concerning the examination of variations to the terms of a marketing author…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Scope and definitions

Article R4412-60

…e carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 ; 2° Any substance, mixture or process defined as such by joint order of the ministers for labo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership

Article L22-10-58

…186 and articles L. 22-10-56 and L. 22-10-57, to grant options to all its employees and to at least 90% of all the employees of its subsidiaries within the meaning of Article L. 233-1 and falling unde…

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