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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-8-2

…ons are subject to promotional communications: 1° Public offers of financial securities, with the exception of those mentioned in 1° of Article L. 411-2 or in 2° or 3° of Article L. 411-2-1; 2° The ad…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Employee savings funds.

Article R214-214-8

…n of 2° of III of article L. 214-165-1, the appraised value of the company is determined in accordance with the following procedures: 1° When the investment instruments of a company savings plan inclu…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Granting of exploitation licences and collection of income from the exploitation of rights

Article L324-8-3

…f its members; 2° The professional qualifications of the directors; 3° The human and material resources that the organisation proposes to implement to ensure the management of the rights concerned; 4°…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Judging of contraventions

Article R49-8-2

I.-The operator of a public land transport service shall submit to the representative of the State in the department in which it has its registered office and, in Paris, to the police prefect, a file…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 12: On-street vehicle parking charges

Article R2333-120-8

No one may be appointed to issue payment notices for the post-parking charge or continue to carry out this activity if they do not meet the following conditions:1° Be of French nationality or a nation…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Storage receipts

Article R522-24-8

…m manager shall issue any applicant with a statement of the pledged goods and the related storage receipts or indicate the absence of a pledge on the goods..

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Accounts, deposit of funds, controls and miscellaneous provisions

Article R814-58-8

…orised employees or the persons to whom authority has been given to carry out the dematerialised procedural acts in question shall have access to the data and information referred to in article R. 814…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1a: National health identifier

Article R1111-8-3

The data mentioned in article R. 1111-8-2 may only be referenced using the national health identifier by the professionals, establishments, services and organisations mentioned in article L. 1110-4 an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Provisions applicable to categories of securities being phased out.

Article L228-29-8

No new securities may be issued pursuant to the articles of this section with the exception of those issued pursuant to decisions of general meetings prior to the entry into force of the ordonnance n°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Jurisdiction of Disciplinary Boards of First Instance

Article R4126-8-1

When disciplinary chambers of first instance are simultaneously seised of separate but related applications, normally falling within their respective territorial jurisdiction, each of the presidents c…

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