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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Local savings companies.

Article R512-51

…ipal cooperation with their own tax status that are members of local savings companies on the guidance and supervisory board of the savings and provident institution to which these companies are affil…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation

Article R1271-23

…ment voucher referred to in B of Article L. 1271-1 sends the Minister responsible for personal services and the Banque de France, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt: 1° An activity r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Classes of affected parts

Article R626-55

…lectronic communication methods constitutes consent to electronic transmission. By means of the notice referred to in the first paragraph, the administrator shall invite the affected parties to inform…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
A. - Reduction of the penalty in the event of voluntary payment.

Article D48-31

The public prosecutor who enforces a financial penalty covered by Article D. 48-30 notifies the convicted person by registered letter that, if he or she pays the amount of this pecuniary penalty withi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Companies authorised to grant certain guarantees

Article R518-69

…abour Code must meet the following characteristics: 1° Loans granted by credit institutions or finance companies covered by a partial guarantee are made against payment ; 2° Partial guarantees granted…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to safeguard procedures, receivership, compulsory liquidation and conciliation procedures applicable to credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms.

Article R613-20

On the basis of the documents and information provided by the debtor, the depositors, the guarantee fund, the administrators appointed by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and by th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Minutes

Article D2315-26

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in Article L. 2315-34, the minutes are drawn up and sent to the employer by the secretary of the Social and Economic Committee within fifteen days of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Open-ended inclusion contracts

Article D5132-43-13

…rom the previous paragraph, the integration workshop or site may conclude open-ended contracts in excess of the threshold set out in the same paragraph, by decision of the Prefect of the département,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Open-ended inclusion contracts

Article D5132-10-17

An entreprise de travail temporaire d'insertion may enter into open-ended contracts as referred to in article D. 5132-10-15 up to 20% of the number of full-time jobs for integration set out in the agr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: National cosmetovigilance system

Article R5131-7

…n health attributable to the normal or reasonably foreseeable use of a cosmetic product, in accordance with Article 2(1) o of the same Regulation. "Serious undesirable effect" means an undesirable eff…

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