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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-4-7

…ontrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall notify the Conseil de résolution unique of any additional capital requirements in accordance with Article L. 533-4-4 and any expected adjustments in accordanc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Shareholders' meetings

Article L22-10-42

…l and for a period not exceeding three years, deprive the agent of the right to participate in that capacity at any meeting of the company concerned in the event of failure to comply with the informat…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Exclusive right of exploitation

Article L613-4

1. It shall also be prohibited, in the absence of the consent of the owner of the patent, to deliver or offer to deliver, on French territory, to a person other than those entitled to exploit the pate…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Materials in contact with water

Article R1321-49

I.-The person responsible for the production, distribution or conditioning of water uses, in new installations or parts of installations undergoing renovation, from the point of withdrawal from the re…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Storage receipts

Article L522-37-4

…by a storage receipt, on pain of its creation being unenforceable. The realisation and judicial allocation of the pledge of goods represented by a storage receipt are governed by Articles 2346 to 2348…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-24

…or an exonerated fine, they send their reasoned request to the competent public accountant. In this case, article 495-20 is not applicable. If the competent public accountant considers the request to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Verification of claims.

Article L625-4

…court-appointed agent, the debtor and the administrator when it has an assistance mission are implicated. The employee may ask the employee representative to assist or represent him before the indust…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Multi-annual intervention and financial participation agreements

Article R1233-4

…under which the agency's territorial delegate in the département is the sole point of contact for local and regional authorities for projects supported by the Agence nationale de la cohésion des terri…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Prevention engineers.

Article L8123-4

…l directorates for companies, competition, consumption, labour and employment, when providing technical support to the labour inspection officers mentioned in article L. 8112-1 in their inspections, i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1b: Harvesting of haematopoietic cells from bone marrow or peripheral blood from an adult donor

Article R1241-4

When a person wishes to have haematopoietic cells collected from bone marrow or peripheral blood, he/she expresses his/her consent before the president of the judicial court or his/her delegate under…

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