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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Special provisions

Article L1525-1

…ngs are not applicable: 1° To semi-public companies set up under the Decree-Laws of 5 November and 28 December 1926 and created prior to 8 July 1983, the date of publication of the loi n° 83-597 du 7…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Costs.

Article 695

…ministerial officers;7° Remuneration of lawyers insofar as it is regulated including pleading fees ;8° Costs incurred by the service of a document abroad;9° Interpreting and translation costs made nec…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Issuance of Bulletin No. 2 of the Criminal Record

Article R79

…ster in connection with applications for registration in the special register of commercial agents; 8° To local public authorities, the SNCF, SNCF Réseau, and SNCF Voyageurs and the subsidiary mention…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-147-1

…ibution in kind consists of: 1° Securities giving access to the capital referred to in Article L. 228-1 or money market instruments, within the meaning of Article 4 of Directive 2004/39/EC of the Euro…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Notifications and information

Article L233-7

…The person required to provide the information referred to in I must also inform the Autorité des marchés financiers, within a period and in accordance with the procedures set out in its general reg…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Contracts awarded without advertising or competitive tendering on account of their value or subject-matter

Article R2122-7

The purchaser may award a works or service contract without prior advertising or competitive tendering for the purpose of providing services similar to those entrusted to the holder of a previous cont…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Decisions and appeals.

Article L464-6-1

The Autorité de la concurrence may also decide, under the conditions laid down in Article L. 464-6, that there are no grounds for continuing the procedure where the practices referred to in Article L.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Master and feeder UCITS

Article L214-22-6

I. - When the master UCITS and the feeder UCITS are authorised by the Autorité des marchés financiers, the latter shall immediately inform the feeder UCITS of any decision, measure or observation rela…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor guarantees

Article L322-3

An order of the Minister responsible for the economy, issued with the assent of the Autorité des marchés financiers, determines the maximum amount of compensation per investor, the procedures and dead…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia and New Caledonia

Article L351-5

…ng from the ordonnance n° 2016-301 du 14 mars 2016 L. 314-6 Resulting from order no. 2016-351 of 25 March 2016 L. 314-7 to L. 314-9 Resulting from Order no. 2016-301 of 14 March 2016 L. 314-22 Resulti…

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