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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: UCITS

Article L214-2-1

…y UCITS governed by French law which intends to market its units or shares and, where applicable, classes of units or shares, in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on…

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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 R2122-3

The purchaser may award a contract without prior advertising or competitive tendering where the works, supplies or services can only be provided by a specific economic operator, for one of the followi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Special rules relating to real estate investment funds

Article L214-77

…l unitholders so dictate, under conditions laid down in the general regulations of the Autorité des marchés financiers. The general regulations of the Autorité des marchés financiers shall in particul…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Labelling.

Article R5141-73

…precautions, if applicable; 10° Special precautions for disposing of unused medicinal products or waste derived from veterinary medicinal products, together with a reference to any appropriate collec…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article A761-1

The standard application file for classification as a market of national interest contains, in addition to the deliberation of the regional council concerned, the following documents:1° The deliberati…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter III: Tenders submitted by economic operators or including products from third countries

Article L2353-1

…is a party shall be awarded to economic operators from Member States of the European Union.The purchaser may, however, authorise, on a case-by-case basis, economic operators from a country outside the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-10

Shares are only negotiable after the company has been registered in the Trade and Companies Register. In the event of a capital increase, the shares may be traded as from the completion of the increas…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: European investment service providers

Article L532-20-1-B

Where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or the Autorité des marchés financiers finds that an ISP with a branch in mainland France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Reunion, Ma…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Allocation

Article L2113-11

The purchaser may decide not to allot a contract in one of the following cases:1° It is not in a position to carry out the organisational, steering and coordination tasks itself;2° Awarding the contra…

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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 R2122-1

The purchaser may award a contract without prior publicity or competitive tendering when, due to compelling urgency resulting from external circumstances and which it could not foresee, it is not poss…

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