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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Investment rules.

Article R214-32-36

A general purpose investment fund may hold up to 25% of the same category of financial securities of the same issuer when the latter is a socially responsible company mentioned in article L. 3332-17-1…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: The borough mayor and deputy mayors (R).

Article R2511-19

The five-day period within which, in accordance with the fifth paragraph of article L. 2511-25, the election of the district mayor and his deputies may be declared null and void for a period of twenty…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surveillance conditions

Article R3214-5

Articles R. 322-15 to R. 322-25 of the Penitentiary Code set out the provisions relating to the supervision and protection of detainees hospitalised in the specially adapted unit, compliance with cour…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article L613-49

I. - The members mentioned in 1° and 2° of I of Article L. 612-8-1 or the European Central Bank may refer the situation of a person mentioned in I of Article L. 613-34 to the resolution college of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons authorised to carry out doorstep selling

Article L341-4

I. - The persons mentioned in article L. 341-3 may appoint natural persons to carry out banking or financial canvassing on their behalf. The establishments and undertakings or institutions mentioned i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVI: Prosecution, investigation and trial of drug trafficking offences

Article 706-31

As an exception to the provisions of Article 750, the maximum duration of judicial restraint is set at one year when the fine and pecuniary penalties imposed for one of the offences mentioned in artic…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Budgetary and accounting system

Article R232-39

Revenue and expenditure accounts may be set up at the Agency by decision of the Chairman, with the approval of the accounting officer, under the conditions laid down by Decree no. 2019-798 of 26 July…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: European patents

Article R614-20

The provisions of articles R. 411-19 to R. 411-26 and R. 618-1 to R. 618-3 are applicable to the decisions, notification and time limits provided for in articles R. 614-1 to R. 614-19.

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 7: Priority question of constitutionality

Article R*532-60

Inadmissibility based on failure to present, in a separate, reasoned pleading, the plea referred to in Article R.* 532-59, may be asserted without application of Article R. 532-12 and the second parag…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Information on prices and conditions of sale

Article L112-4-1

Where the contract for the sale of goods or the contract for the supply of digital content or digital services does not provide for the payment of a price, the trader shall specify the nature of the b…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
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