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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter X: Digital asset service providers

Article D54-10-3

I.-On receipt of a complete application, the Autorité des marchés financiers will examine it and forward it within five working days to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution for its opi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Powers and prerogatives

Article R561-36-1

…rity and conservation of this designation by the TRACFIN department, for a specified period. In the case of avocats au Conseil d'Etat et à la Cour de cassation and avocats, except where the latter are…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties

Article R621-39-1

A member of the Enforcement Committee who, without prejudice to the cases provided for in Article 12 of the aforementioned Act of 20 January 2017, assumes that he or she is a ground for disqualificati…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties

Article R621-39-10

The Board's decision can only be appealed together with the decision on the grievances.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to the Autorité des marchés financiers

Article D632-3-1

At the request of a competent authority of a trading venue on which an investment services provider other than an asset management company uses algorithmic trading as a member or client of that venue,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Functioning of committees

Article R23-113-3

I. - Notwithstanding the provisions of articles R. 3252-2 to R. 3252-5, where the trade union organisation has not reimbursed the employer for all or part of the sums due within the period provided fo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Distribution

Article D3252-34-1

The maximum amount of residual claims paid as a priority pursuant to the second paragraph of Article L. 3252-8 is set at €500.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Group retirement savings plan

Article D3334-3-1

…es set out in the plan rules. The employee has a period of fifteen days from the date of such notification in which to expressly waive such membership. The employee may be informed electronically, und…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Embryonic stem cell research.

Article R2151-12-3

…the Director General of the Agency does not object within two months of the date on which the application is complete, the research protocol may begin. The Agency's Steering Committee is consulted fo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Establishments and organisations authorised to combat tuberculosis

Article D3112-11-3

…d, the territorially competent primary health insurance fund pays a provisional fraction of the allocation, the amount of which is equivalent to a quarter of the total amount of the allocation for the…

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