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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article D214-64-1

The Autorité des marchés financiers shall refuse to approve the creation of a fonds commun de placement dans l'innovation if, over a period of three years, each of the fonds communs de placement dans…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Personalised assistance for returning to work

Article L5133-9

Personalised assistance to return to work is funded by the State. The funds allocated to this assistance are divided between the organisations within which the advisors mentioned inarticle L. 262-27 o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Institutions responsible for regulation and control

Article R783-13

The Credit Advisory Committee instituted by Article 101 of Organic Law No. 2004-192 of 27 February 2004 on the autonomous status of French Polynesia is consulted by the High Commissioner of the Republ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Multi-annual territorial plan for risk management and healthcare system efficiency

Article R1441-15

Articles R. 1434-13 to R. 1434-18, R. 1434-21, R. 1434-22 and R. 1434-24 to R. 1434-27 do not apply to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R6153-1-29

…1-27 are specified by order of the ministers responsible for health, the economy and the civil service.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles relating to research involving the human person

Article L1121-1

…nd Health Products;3° Non-interventional research involving no risks or constraints in which all procedures are carried out and products are used on a routine basis.The natural person or legal entity…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Safeguards.

Article L622-19

Any sum paid by the association mentioned in article L. 143-11-4 of the Labour Code in application of Articles L. 143-11-1 to L. 143-11-3 of the same code gives rise to a declaration to the tax author…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article L775-18

…order no. 2020-115 of 12 February 2020 L. 524-5 Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009 L. 524-6 Ordinance no. 2020-115 of 12 February 2020 L. 524-7Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Preventing business difficulties, ad hoc mandates and conciliation procedures.

Article R611-25

…ied to the applicant by the registrar. If a conciliator is appointed, the notification shall reproduce the provisions of articles R. 611-27 and R. 611-28. The decision opening the conciliation procedu…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Single subsection: Audit of production accounts

Article D213-12

The line producer has three months from receipt of the draft audit report provided for in article L. 213-27 to submit its written observations to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée.

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