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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Supervision of groups on a consolidated basis

Article L613-20-6

…rned, on the group as a whole and on the other entities that make it up, the Authority shall communicate its assessment to the competent authorities concerned.In the event of disagreement with the com…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to portfolio management companies

Article L533-22-1

…c pursuant to Article 3 of the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the publication of sustainable investment and sustainability risk information and amending Directive (EU) 201…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L131-1

…n life insurance and personal accident insurance, the sums insured are fixed by the contract.In the case of life insurance or capitalisation operations, the guaranteed capital or annuity may be expres…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-50

…ité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall not grant authorisation to the branch of the applicant third-country undertaking unless the third-country undertaking to which the branch belongs unde…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-20

…d the related undertakings concerned to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution in its capacity as group supervisor for authorisation to calculate, on the basis of an internal model, the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-33

…'article 18, de l'article 19, des paragraphes 1 et 2 de l'article 20, Article 23(1) to (4), Article 24(1) and (2), Article 25(1) and (2), Article 27(5), Article 28(1), Article 29(1), Article 32(1) and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to the preparation of preventive resolution plans

Article L613-40-1

…asis of Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010, if it considers that the matter at issue may have an impact on public finances in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK VII: SPECIAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO MAYOTTE

Article L1711-4

I. - Articles L. 1424-1 to L. 1424-13, L. 1424-17 to L. 1424-19, L. 1424-22, L. 1424-24 to L. 1424-44, L. 1424-46 et L. 1424-48 to L. 1424-50 shall apply in Mayotte from 1 January 2014, subject to the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Scope of collective bargaining

Article L3141-22

If, in application of a legal provision, an employee's working hours are counted on an annual basis, a company or establishment agreement or, failing that, an industry agreement may provide that leave…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Realisation of assets.

Article L642-12

…gnment relates to assets subject to a special lien, pledge, charge or mortgage, the court shall allocate to each of these assets, for the purpose of apportioning the price and exercising the preferent…

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