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Showing 18311840 of 26790 articles for Art. CE 5-6-2020 n° 423066

French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Voluntary sales of furniture by public auction.

Article R321-68

The application for partial access to the activities of voluntary sale of furniture by public auction provided for in article L. 321-28-1, shall be sent to the Conseil des maisons de vente by teleproc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L785-6

…and column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 621-1 with the exception of its second paragraph Act no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 L. 621-2 Law no. 2021-1308 of 8 Octo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Life insurance and capitalisation operations

Article A132-9-5

…expressed in the form of a theoretical mathematical provision for point-based schemes), as at 31 December of the previous year:1° Amount of unpaid death benefits under life insurance contracts other…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Procedure for authorising the import and export of elements or products of the human body mentioned in Article R. 1245-1 for therapeutic purposes, as provided for in the first and third paragraphs of II of Article L. 1245-5.

Article R1245-6

The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé will send a copy of the dossier to the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine, who will give h…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 698-7

…visions of Article 698-6 are applicable, for the trial of ordinary crimes committed in the performance of service by military personnel, only if there is a risk of disclosure of a national defence sec…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 312-6

The following are considered as authors' artistic experience: 1° Writing or directing a cinematographic or audiovisual work of fiction, animation or creative documentary released in cinemas or broadca…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Resources and expenditure of the inter-company social and cultural activities committee

Article R2312-55

Sub-paragraph 5 of paragraph 3 of sub-section 6 and sub-section 9 of section 3 of chapter V of title II of book III of the second part are applicable to the inter-company social and cultural activitie…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Master and feeder general purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-58

…an information exchange agreement with the master AIF or UCITS. However, this agreement may be replaced by internal conduct of business rules when the master AIF or UCITS and the feeder general-purpos…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Master and feeder general purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-57

I. - The articles of association or fund rules of a general-purpose investment fund known as a "feeder general-purpose investment fund" may stipulate that all of its assets are invested in shares or u…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Master and feeder general purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-59

…tive obligations.The feeder general-purpose investment fund shall provide its depositary with all necessary information concerning the master AIF or UCITS in order for the depositary to fulfil its obl…

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