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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Services provided by an institution for occupational retirement provision established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L370-5

Where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution identifies major difficulties in applying the provisions of this Title and Title VIII of this Book, it shall inform the Commission and the Eu…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter III: Residence permits for family reasons

Article R423-5

For the application of article L. 423-23, foreign nationals who invoke the protection due to their right to respect for private and family life in France must provide any justification that makes it p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Approval of professional associations

Article R519-57

I.-The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) shall rule on the application for authorisation within three months of the date of receipt of a complete file. It will notify the associa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and internal control

Article L511-57

I. - Where supervision is exercised on the basis of the consolidated financial situation, financial or mixed groups and groups comprising at least one finance company must adopt adequate internal cont…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national criminal database for perpetrators of terrorist offences

Article R50-50

The person concerned, of French nationality and residing abroad, who is unable to fulfil the obligations resulting from article 706-25-7 because of the absence of French representation in the foreign…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial arrangements and legal representation of agencies

Article R1432-56

The budget of the Regional Health Agency and the supplementary budget devoted to the management of appropriations from the Regional Intervention Fund and to the management of any appropriation paid to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sale and transfer of shares.

Article R4113-51

If the company refuses to agree to the transfer, it has a period of six months from the date of notification of its refusal to notify the member, in one of the forms provided for in the first paragrap…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions applicable to companies whose financial instruments are no longer traded on a regulated market

Article L433-5

Articles L. 433-1 to L. 433-4 are applicable to companies whose financial instruments have ceased to be admitted to trading on a regulated market in order to be admitted to trading on a multilateral t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: National Council for Periodic Certification

Article L4022-5

The National Periodic Certification Board is responsible to the Minister for Health for defining the strategy, deployment and promotion of periodic certification. In this capacity:1° It sets the scien…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIc: Enforcement of sentences and probation decisions in application of the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 27 November 2008

Article 764-5

A conviction or a probation decision may be transmitted to the competent authority of another Member State of the European Union where: 1° The person concerned is ordinarily resident, under lawful con…

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