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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions.

Article R511-16-4

…lating to their establishments by State or territory, referred to in 1° of III of the same article, as well as a table grouping together by State or territory the other information referred to in III…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: Contracts comprising inseparable services

Article L1312-1

Where a purchaser concludes a single contract intended to satisfy objectively indissociable needs which, on the one hand, are covered by the ordinary law on contracts set out in Book I of Part Two or…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 4: Public contracts awarded by a contracting entity to a joint venture

Article L2511-9

…luded by a contracting entity with such a body where the following conditions are met: 1° The body has been set up to carry out its activity for a period of at least three years; 2° Under the terms of…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 5: Electronic catalogues

Article R2162-56

The purchaser may award specific contracts under a dynamic purchasing system by requiring that tenders be submitted in the form of an electronic catalogue. It may also award specific contracts in acco…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Exclusive right of exploitation

Article L613-2-4

The protection referred to in articles L. 613-2-2 and L. 613-2-3 shall not extend to biological material obtained by reproduction or multiplication of biological material placed on the market in the t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Regime for members of a regulated market

Article L421-20

…to in Article L. 421-1: a) Directly, by establishing a branch in mainland France, the French overseas departments, the Department of Mayotte or Saint-Martin ; b) Or by becoming a remote member of thi…

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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 procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Definitive prices

Article R2312-12

…ubstantially affected by fluctuations in world prices, include a price review clause including at least one reference to the official indices for setting these prices, in accordance with the provision…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for amending the single copy and the certificate of transferability in the case of services entrusted to a subcontractor eligible for direct payment

Article R2193-5

…the contract or the special act and where the provisions of Chapter I of this Title apply, he shall ask the purchaser, without prejudice to the provisions relating to acceptance of the subcontractor i…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R2344-2

The purchaser shall verify the information contained in the application, including the economic operators on whose capabilities the applicant relies, at the latest before the contract is awarded. This…

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