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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Operating rules

Article L214-24-48

…ffecting a general-purpose investment fund or a sub-fund is subject to approval by the Autorité des marchés financiers.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Offences relating to doorstep selling and the distance provision of financial services

Article R753-28

…R. 353-1 is applicable in French Polynesia in the version resulting from Decree no. 2018-229 of 30 March 2018.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Work equipment that is new or considered new

Article R4312-1-2

Fence energisers are subject to decree no. 96-216 of 14 March 1996 on the technical rules and certification procedure applicable to fence energisers.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Choice of award criteria

Article R2152-7

…ppropriate, to the tenderers who have submitted the most economically advantageous tender, the purchaser shall base himself: 1° Either on a single criterion which may be : a) Price, provided that the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Other appendices

Article Annexe G

…4. Date of notification of the public contract. II. - In the case of public contracts equal to or greater than the amount from which contracts are concluded in wr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Information provided by the promoter

Article R1123-71

…position;5° The information that will be given, in application of Article L. 1122-1, to the persons asked to take part in the research and the procedures for obtaining the consent of these persons, in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Loan categories

Article L754-5

…d in the right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 313-12 Order no. 2013-544 of 27 June 2013 L. 313-12-1 Law no. 2013-672 of 26 July 2013 L. 313-12-2 Or…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions (R).

Article R5215-15

…ifies the interested parties of this substitution, in accordance with the rules applicable to each case, and pursues, where appropriate, the proceedings in progress, in accordance with the procedural…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title IX: Provisions applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R391-1

This Book, as amended by Decree no. 2010-217 of 3 March 2010 , is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, with the exception of Section 2 of Chapter III, Title II, Articles R. 324-4 and R. 334-48…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4a: Provisions applicable to refugees, stateless persons and beneficiaries of territorial asylum or subsidiary protection and to French nationals who have returned to French territory at the request of the French authorities

Article R4221-14-11

Articles D. 4221-13-2 and R. 4221-13-3 apply to applications for authorisation to practise made under this section.

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