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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions and scope of application

Article L224-26-2

Article L. 224-27, the I of article L. 224-28, articles L. 224-29, L. 224-30, L. 224-42 and the I and III of article L. 224-42-2 are also applicable to end users who are micro-enterprises, small busin…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Resale rights

Article R122-12

A professional responsible for payment of the resale right pursuant to Article R. 122-9 is liable to a fine of the third class for:1° Not paying the resale right to the beneficiary who requests it in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Relations with the statutory auditors

Article L612-43

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may, when the situation so warrants and under conditions laid down by decree, appoint an additional auditor to the undertakings mentioned in A of I…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medically assisted procreation.

Article L2442-2-1

For the application in New Caledonia of article L. 2141-11:1° In the second paragraph of I, the words: "and, where applicable, that of one of the parents exercising parental authority or of the guardi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Packaging characteristics

Article L3512-21

I.-The labelling of unit packets, any outer packaging and the tobacco product itself may not include any element or device that : 1° Contributes to the promotion of a tobacco product or encourages its…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 1: Decisions recognising a state of natural disaster

Article D125-1-1

The rules governing the right to communication of administrative documents on which decisions are based to recognise or not to recognise a municipality as being in a state of natural disaster are laid…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Notifications and information.

Article R233-2

The shareholder information provided for in I of Article L. 233-8 shall take the form of a notice published in a medium authorised to carry legal advertisements in the département where the company ha…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 6: Financial provisions

Article L5842-7

I. - Articles L. 5211-21, L. 5211-23, L. 5211-25-1, L. 5211-26, L. 5211-27 are applicable in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II.II. - For the application of Article L. 5211…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Foreign financial relations

Article L732-5

I.- Pursuant to 8° of article 6-2 of Organic Law no. 99-209 of 19 March 1999, subject to the adaptation provisions set out in II, the following shall apply ipso jure in New Caledonia: 1° Article L. 15…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Investment rules.

Article R214-32-37

I. - A feeder general-purpose investment fund may invest up to 100% of its assets in units or shares of the same master UCITS or AIF and hold up to 100% of the units or shares of the master UCITS or A…

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