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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Infringements relating to Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2012 establishing technical and commercial requirements for credit transfers and direct debits in euro and amending Regulation (EC) No 924/2009

Article L362-2

The administrative authority responsible for competition and consumer affairs is the competent authority to impose the administrative fines provided for in article L. 362-1 of this Code, under the con…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Technical support

Article R4451-131

The Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire is responsible for : 1° Defining the procedures for communicating the results of measurements of radon activity concentration in the air as provi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions

Article R4451-134

The Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire may carry out: 1° The verifications provided for in section 6 of this chapter, notwithstanding the provisions of articles R. 4451-40 and R. 4451-…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Technical support

Article R4451-133

The Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety) shall issue a technical opinion on the orders issued pursuant to this chapter.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Technical support

Article R4451-132

The Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety) defines, after consultation with the Minister for Work, the organisational and pricing co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Forms

Article L511-54

No act on the part of the bearer of the bill of exchange may replace the act of protest, except in the cases provided for by articles L. 511-32 to L. 511-37 and by articles L. 511-40 and L. 511-41.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Advertising.

Article L511-56

The clerk of the commercial court shall regularly update, on the basis of denunciations made to him by notaries and bailiffs, a statement by name and by debtor of protests for non-payment of accepted…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Forms

Article L511-52

Protests in the absence of acceptance or payment shall be made by a notary or by a bailiff. The protest must be made by one and the same act: 1° At the domicile of the person on whom the bill of excha…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Advertising.

Article L511-58

Upon deposit against a receipt by the debtor of the bill of exchange and the protest of the postal cheque and the certificate of non-payment or a receipt recording payment of the cheque, the clerk of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Forms

Article L511-53

The act of protest contains the literal transcription of the bill of exchange, the acceptance, endorsements and recommendations indicated therein, the summons to pay the amount of the bill of exchange…

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