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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Preparations containing several poisonous substances.

Article R5132-41

The provisions of article R. 5132-40 are applicable to the salts and esters of these substances as well as to compositions containing these substances, their salts or their esters in any form whatsoev…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General-purpose investment funds.

Article R214-32-38

I. - The rules governing the composition of assets and the division of risks must be complied with at all times. However :1° General-purpose investment funds are not required to comply with the limits…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Estimated revenue and expenditure and accounts

Article D6162-10

Subject to the adaptations provided for in this section and subject to the legislative provisions and rules of organisation and operation under private law which are specific to them, the provisions o…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the recognition and enforcement by the French authorities of a European protection order

Article 696-106

When the liberty and custody judge has been informed by the competent authority of the issuing State of a change in the measures on which the European protection order is based, he shall amend the mea…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Unions of mutual insurance companies.

Article R322-117

Without prejudice to the nullities provided for in Article R. 322-90, any association of mutual insurance companies formed contrary to the provisions of Article R. 322-109 is null and void. However, n…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Tontines.

Article R322-159

Without prejudice to the nullities provided for in article R. 322-90, any tontines incorporated contrary to the provisions of articles R. 322-139 and R. 322-154 are null and void. However, neither the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Types of practice

Article R743-120

Sociétés d'exercice libéral de greffiers de tribunaux de commerce are governed by the provisions of Book II, subject to the provisions of this section and of law n° 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relatin…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 312-17

Aid is awarded in the form of a grant, the amount of which is set as follows:1° For concept aid for fiction projects, the amount of aid is set at €7,500;2° For concept aid for animation projects, the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Measures specific to the safeguarding, reorganisation or compulsory liquidation of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms

Article R613-21

The claims referred to in article R. 613-20 are the subject, at the request of the creditors' representative or the liquidator, of the publication, in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et com…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Mortgages

Article L313-42

When the deed referred to in article L. 313-40 indicates that the price will be paid without the aid of one or more loans, this deed shall bear, in the hand of the purchaser, a statement by which the…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
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