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Showing 35213530 of 8111 articles for Art. CE 27-12-2022 n° 464505

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L775-4

…the application of 2° of this article, a group within the meaning of article L. 356-1 of the Insurance Code and the words: or a mixed group or a financial conglomerate to which regulated entities with…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title VI : CONDITIONS OF APPLICATION IN THE OVERSEAS OF THE PROVISIONS OF BOOK IV RELATING TO MARKETS

Article L761-1

…lication of this Title in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, references to Regulations (EU) of the European Parliament and of the Council No 648/2012 of 4 July 2012, No…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R2681-1

…e powers devolved to this collectivity, in their wording resulting from Decree No. 2018-1075 of 3 December 2018, unless otherwise specified in the table below.APPLICABLE PROVISIONSAS THEY STANDIn Book…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article L5842-6

…IONS IN THE VERSION RESULTING FROM L. 5211-16 law no. 99-586 of 12 July 1999 L. 5211-17 (with the exception of the third and sixth paragraphs) law no. 2006-1771 of 30 December 2006 L. 5211-17-2 law no…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Voter participation in local decision-making

Article L1821-1

…a in the version resulting from Law no. 2022-217 of 21 February 2022 relating to differentiation, decentralisation, deconcentration and various measures to simplify local public action.II.-For the app…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Medical professions.

Article L4421-14

…stem. Article L. 4151-2 is applicable there in the version resulting from Law No. 2022-1616 of 23 December 2022 on the financing of social security for 2023.Article L. 4151-4 is applicable in the terr…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Single chapter: Treatment of over-indebtedness

Article L771-2

…022 in favour of independent professional activity L. 711-3 and L. 711-6 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-301 du 14 mars 2016 relative à la partie législative du code de la consommation L. 711-4…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Specific provisions applicable to clinical investigations of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1125-1

I.-The clinical investigations of the devices mentioned in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 are governed by the provisions of the afo…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Custody account and registration in a shared electronic recording system

Article L211-7

Financial securities admitted to the operations of a central depository may be registered in a securities account held by an intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-3, unless the issuer decides oth…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Special provisions applicable to auctioneers, bailiffs, notaries and lawyers

Article R444-56

…weeks if the payment is made in cash, six weeks in other cases. If the debtor pays the claim in successive instalments, these time limits are six weeks and three months respectively.Any breach of thi…

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