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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Technical and accounting rules.

Article R441-7-4

…erations governed by this chapter represent, as at 31 December 2017, more than 80% of all the technical provisions within the meaning of Title IV of Book III, constituted at the level of the insurance…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Designation

Article L2122-7-2

…a population of 1,000 or more, deputy councillors are elected by an absolute majority of the votes cast, without any combination of votes or preferential votes. The list is composed alternately of on…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Authorisation of payment institutions

Article L522-7-1

I. - Payment institutions providing the payment service referred to in 7° of II of article L. 314-1 must, at the time of authorisation, have professional civil liability insurance covering the territo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for processing applications

Article R1142-63-7

The application referred to in Article L. 1142-24-2 shall be sent to the Office by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or lodged with the Office in return for a receipt. It is accompanie…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXa: Directory of personal data collected in the context of legal proceedings

Article 706-56-2

…revent the repetition of these offences.The directory centralises all psychiatric, medico-psychological, psychological and multidisciplinary expert assessments, evaluations and examinations of the per…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Remote access to correspondence stored by means of electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier

Article 706-95-3

The operations mentioned in articles 706-95-1 and 706-95-2 are carried out under the authority and control of the magistrate who authorised them and may not, on pain of nullity, have any purpose other…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Technical and accounting rules.

Article R441-7-1

…set out in Article L. 441-2, the insurance undertaking shall make up this shortfall in the theoretical mathematical provision by the sum of the special technical provision, the unrealised gains and l…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Rights of the holder of the pharmaceutical dossier

Article R1111-20-7

…ients of the information relating to the exercise of this right. Where the holder of the pharmaceutical record is a minor and is being treated without the consent of his legal representative under the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-9

…cle L. 5121-12-1 are no longer met, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may suspend or revoke the compassionate prescribing framework. He ma…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Article L335-7-1

…the same way, in the event of gross negligence, on the holder of access to an online public communication service to which the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique, p…

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