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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial penalties

Article R5461-4

…owing constitutes a breach subject to a financial penalty: 1° For the manufacturer of a medical device or its authorised representative, failing to make available to the Director General of the Agence…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and internal control

Article L533-29-3

…t is a financial institution within the meaning of Article 4(1), point 26 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 in a Member State or in a third country other than the one in which they have been granted auth…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Markets of national interest

Article L761-5

…ntioned in article L. 761-4, plans to set up or extend premises or groups of premises intended to receive, for the purposes of non-retail sales, products on the list defined by order of the supervisor…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article L2336-1

…With effect from 2012, a national fund for the equalisation of inter-communal and communal resources is created for communes and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Compensation in the event of dismissal, discharge or acquittal

Article R249-2

…compensation for legal fees incurred by the person being prosecuted, the amount of which may not exceed the State's contribution to the remuneration of the lawyer who would have assisted the person c…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment

Article R532-25

…tions applicable to it, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall, within fifteen working days of receiving any of the items referred to in the previous paragraph, ask the asset management company not…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-5

Financial holding companies and parent undertakings of finance companies are subject to the provisions of the second paragraph of Article L. 511-13, Article L. 511-21 and Articles L. 511-33 to L. 511-…

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

Article R356-20-1

…the consolidated group Solvency Capital Requirement and the Solvency Capital Requirement of insurance and reinsurance undertakings with their head office in France, it shall cooperate with the group…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Payment service providers

Article L775-15

…ht-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 521-1 Ordinance no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 521-2 Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009 L. 521-3 Order no. 201…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Construction. Housing

Article 1051

…ticle L. 365-2 du code de la construction et de l'habitation; 1° bis Acquisitions, made before 31 December 2013, by low-income housing bodies, sociétés anonymes de crédit immobilier or their unions an…

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