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Showing 90019010 of 10563 articles for Art. CE 27-9-2006 n° 285279

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Specialised professional funds.

Article R214-203-6

…culation method as set out in Article 8 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 231/2013 of 19 December 2012 ;b) The fund rules or articles of association shall define the conditions under which ca…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Preliminary section: Business formalities centres

Article A123-3

I.-The qualified electronic signature certificate referred to in Article R. 123-5 falls at least, pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-4-2

…gulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, in accordance with point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 of the Euro…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
7°: Local authorities, local public bodies and local public companies

Article 1042

…under article L. 1522-1 du code général des collectivités territoriales ne donnent lieu à aucune perception au profit du Trésor, sous réserve que la décision de l'assemblée délibérante compétente pour…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freezing of assets and prohibition on making assets available to third parties

Article L774-43

…by operation of law in French Polynesia. II - For the application of I, in article L. 562-8, references toarticle L. 330-1 of the Highway Code are replaced by locally applicable provisions having the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The status of the sole trader

Article D526-30

…the universal transfer of business assets provided for in article L. 526-27, in the form of a notice in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales or an announcement in a medium auth…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Technical provisions for life assurance, marriage and natality insurance and capitalisation operations

Article R343-3

The technical provisions corresponding to life insurance, marriage and natality insurance and capitalisation operations are as follows:1° Mathematical provision: difference between the present values…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Declaration of the opening of the laboratory and changes to its operation

Article D6222-6

…le L. 6222-1, by any means that can be reliably dated, to the regional health agency or agencies concerned with the creation of the laboratory or site.This declaration includes the following documents…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-7

…f: a) The asset is entrusted to a third party that is responsible either for managing a public service that the territorial authority or establishment has delegated to it, or for providing that author…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter III: ANNUAL REPORT ON GUIDELINES FOR POLICY ON ASYLUM, IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION

Article L123-1

…quantitative data relating to the previous calendar year, namely: 1° The number of different residence permits granted and the number of applications rejected and renewals refused; 2° The number of fo…

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