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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter V: Professional secrecy

Article L415-1

The agents mentioned in article L. 411-1 and the persons mentioned in article L. 412-3 are bound by professional secrecy with regard to facts, acts or information of which they may have knowledge by r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Offences relating to the depositors' guarantee fund

Article L352-1

Members of the Management Board or Supervisory Board of the Depositors' Guarantee Fund and any person who, by virtue of their duties, has access to documents and information held by the Fund, shall be…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Capital increases

Article R22-10-32

For the purposes of the first paragraph of Article L. 22-10-52, the price shall be at least equal to the weighted average of the prices on the last three trading days prior to the start of the public…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Mayotte Regional Health Agency

Article D1446-4

The provisions laid down in articles D. 1432-11 to D. 1432-14 for each of the coordination commissions apply to the Mayotte coordination commission subject to the following adaptations: In article D.…

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French Sports CodeIn force
PRELIMINARY TITLE: GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Article L100-1

The development of sport for all and support for top-level sportsmen and women and the French national teams in international competitions are in the general interest. The practice of physical and spo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-18

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall demonstrate to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution that they make extensive use of their internal model and that it plays an important rol…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Own funds

Article R351-26

With regard to compliance with the Solvency Capital Requirement, the eligible amounts of Tier 2 and Tier 3 elements are subject to quantitative limits. These limits are defined in Article 82 of Commis…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-22

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall implement a regular model validation cycle, which includes monitoring the functioning of the internal model, checking the ongoing appropriateness of its sp…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Mixed associations composed of communes and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation or exclusively public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation

Article L5843-1

I. - The provisions of the single chapter of Title I of Book VII of Part Five mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the righ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-19

The professional practice standard relating to events subsequent to the end of the financial year, approved by the Minister of Justice, is shown below: NEP-560 Events after the end of the financial ye…

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