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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Custodian

Article L214-24-5

…chosen from a list of entities drawn up by the Minister responsible for the economy. AIF custodians may delegate their duties under the conditions laid down in the general regulations of the Autorité…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Obtaining a speciality by a court-appointed administrator already on the list referred to in article L. 811-2

Article R811-28-5

…' professional practice in the speciality applied for, attested by a knowledge control examination, may have the mention of that speciality entered on the list provided for in Article L. 811-2.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Mutual insurance companies with a board of directors and general management

Article R322-53-2

…owever, if the company's articles of association so provide, the Chairman of the Board of Directors may assume the role of Chief Executive Officer. On the recommendation of the Chief Executive Officer…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the transfer of activities

Article L613-52-1

With the agreement of the purchaser, the College of Resolution may return to its original owner any item that has been transferred pursuant to the first paragraph of Article L. 613-52, without the lat…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Mutual insurance companies with a supervisory board and management board

Article R322-54-2

…t he or she intends to retain. The Supervisory Board shall decide whether it is compatible with the duties of a member of the Board to continue to exercise these activities or duties. Subsequently, it…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Master and feeder general purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-58

…enter into an information exchange agreement with the master AIF or UCITS. However, this agreement may be replaced by internal conduct of business rules when the master AIF or UCITS and the feeder ge…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-102-5

…out in articles 1240 and 1241 of the Civil Code, breach of the obligations defined in article L. 225-102-4 of this Code shall engage the liability of its author and oblige him to compensate the damag…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable in the event of recording using a secure electronic device

Article A37-27-5

…3, in the book of counterfoil receipts for collection and the various sheets of the book's bundles, may be stored on a dematerialised medium, guaranteeing their security and reliability, using a secur…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Fonds de compensation des risques de l'assurance de la construction.

Article R*431-55

…at the request of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Caisse Centrale de Réassurance. It may call upon rapporteurs. The secretariat of the Committee is provided by the Caisse Centrale de Ré…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Hospital practitioners.

Article L6152-5-1

…lth establishment in which they were mainly practising, the practitioners mentioned in article L. 6151-1, in 1° of article L. 6152-1 and those mentioned in 2° of the same article L. 6152-1, whose work…

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