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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title II: Investment services, services related to investment services and data communication services

Article D321-1

The investment services referred to in Article L. 321-1 are defined as follows:1. The service of reception and transmission of orders on behalf of third parties is the act of receiving and transmittin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tasks

Article D1123-27

The National Commission for Research Involving the Human Person shall carry out the duties set out in Article L. 1123-1-1 and, in this capacity, shall : 1° Ensures the coordination and harmonisation o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Measures aimed at eliminating pay differentials between women and men in the company and ensuring a balanced distribution of each sex among senior executives and members of management bodies

Article D1142-15

The data used to assess any gaps in representation between women and men referred to in Article L. 1142-11 are as follows: 1° The percentage of women among all senior managers within the meaning of Ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Coordination committees.

Article D1432-9

In order to carry out the tasks assigned to it by 2° of Article L. 1432-1, the Commission :1° May decide, by mutual agreement between its members, on work to be carried out to contribute to the develo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Conditions specific to the modality: "systemic drug treatments for cancer".

Article D6124-134

The holder of the authorisation has the following facilities on the site: 1° At least one hospitalisation sector; 2° At least one technical platform for administering intravenous treatments; 3° Medica…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: Clearing houses

Article D440-2

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, when requiring that a clearing house be subject to authorisation by the European Central Bank as a credit institution within the meaning of Articl…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Employee adviser

Article D1232-9

The employer is reimbursed monthly by the State for the salaries maintained in application of the provisions of article L. 1232-9 as well as all the benefits and corresponding social security charges…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Industrial tribunal members

Article D1423-59

The employer is reimbursed on a monthly basis by the State for the salaries paid to an employee who is a member of a labour tribunal and who is absent from work in order to carry out his labour tribun…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Detention

Article D52-1

In cases where, under the provisions of this Code, it is provided that requests for acts or measures useful to the investigation, requests for release, applications for annulment, appeals, appeals or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Sub-section 2: Provisions applicable to the automatic release under constraint provided for in II of article 720

Article D147-21

The prison integration and probation service will forward its opinion on the most appropriate measure and on the obligations and prohibitions likely to be imposed to the sentence enforcement judge in…

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