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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Participative finance service providers

Article L547-4

…ervice providers may also provide, under the conditions set out in Article L. 547-5, services identical to those mentioned in point ii) of a) of paragraph 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2020/1503 o…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-24

…rom a third party does not exempt insurance and reinsurance undertakings from the requirements applicable to the internal model referred to in Articles R. 352-18 to R. 352-23. The detailed rules for t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Operation

Article R1212-8

…e drawn up by the full Commission. If the plenary session does not meet before the first Tuesday in October, the report will be drawn up by its Chairman after consultation with the members of the Comm…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Offences relating to market undertakings and clearing houses

Article L763-12

…in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Offences relating to market undertakings and clearing houses

Article L762-12

…visions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Regional school equipment grants

Article R4332-15

After the Finance Bill has been deposited on the National Assembly's desk and before 15 October each year at the latest, the regional prefect informs the region of the provisional amount of the region…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Transferred services.

Article R4422-32

The personnel expenses corresponding to the services or parts of services mentioned in article R. 4422-31 are borne by the Corsican local authority under the conditions provided for in Title I of law…

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French Commercial codeIn force
APPENDIX 7-9 (APPENDIX TO ARTICLE A. 752-4)

Article Annexe 7-9

…TERISTICS OF THE PROJECT PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLES R. 752-16 AND R. 752-38 OF THE COMMERCIAL CODEYou can consult the full text with its images from the extract from the authenticated electronic Officia…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 611-29

…for each of the sessions of the commission for aid to videographic publishing, more than six applications for the granting of aid for the publishing of a specific work in the case provided for in 1°…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Simplified group action procedure

Article R623-15

The provisions of articles R. 623-20 to R. 623-22 are applicable to this section.

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