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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-48-5

…ruments or eligible commitments referred to in VII of Article L. 613-48 or Tier 2 capital instruments. The resolution college shall also ensure that the following conditions are met: 1° The Tier 1 cor…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Composition and management of the plan.

Article L3332-16

…f the second paragraph of article L. 3344-1, as part of a repurchase operation reserved for employees. The sums or securities entered in the participants' accounts, upon their individual decision, mus…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction.

Article R321-18

Subject to the provisions of Article R. 321-65, no person may conduct voluntary sales of furniture by public auction unless he meets the following conditions: 1° Be French or a national of a State oth…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article L5842-11

I. - The articles L. 5211-42 to L. 5211-45 are applicable in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II to IV.II. - For the application of Article L. 5211-42, the words "in each de…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article R53-19

The national automated genetic fingerprint database may not be interconnected, reconciled or linked with any other automated processing of nominative information, with the exception of: 1° Processing…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L783-9

…'article L. 621-15, les références aux 14° et 20° du II de l'article L. 621-9 ne sont pas applicables.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L785-6

I.-Subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment rules

Article R214-13

…t more than 10% of their total assets in the units or shares of other UCITS, FIAs or investment funds.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Obligations arising from the results of location surveys

Article R1334-29-3

…visual examination of the condition of the treated surfaces before any return to the treated premises. He shall also have a measurement taken of the level of dust in the air after the containment syst…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Seniority requirements

Article D6323-9

…including four months, consecutive or otherwise, on a fixed-term contract over the last twelve months.These seniority conditions do not apply to an employee who, regardless of the nature of his employ…

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