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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L621-35

Each year, the association draws up a report on its activities. It submits this report to the Autorité des marchés financiers, which provides its observations and recommendations on the association's…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Bills of exchange

Article L511-77

If the text of a bill of exchange is altered, signatories subsequent to the alteration are bound by the terms of the altered text; earlier signatories are bound by the terms of the original text.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1046

All deeds drawn up under the provisions of the chapitre unique du titre II du livre IV de la deuxième partie du code général des collectivités territoriales relatif au régime de certains biens immobil…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-29

The enforcement measures provided for in Article L. 412-1 : 1° The provisions of Articles 1 to 7a of Regulation (EEC) No 2136/89 of the Council of the European Communities of 21 June 1989, as amended,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-63

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the conditions of application of this section.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L621-23

…a communication service providers are bound by professional secrecy with regard to the Autorité des marchés financiers.Statutory auditors are required to report as soon as possible to the Autorité des…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L621-25

The Autorité des marchés financiers may ask the statutory auditors of an investment services provider, an AIF, a market undertaking or an intermediary authorised to hold or administer financial instru…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L621-24

Statutory auditors are required to report to the AMF as soon as possible any fact or decision concerning an investment services provider or an intermediary authorised to hold or administer financial i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L621-22

I. - (Repealed) II. - The Autorité des marchés financiers may ask the statutory auditors of persons whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market for any information on the persons th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 13: Medical care contracts

Article L224-105

…The rules relating to information provided to the patient by a dental surgeon or a doctor on the occasion of a procedure involving a supplier or a service provider are laid down by the provisions of t…

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