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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Investment of sums held in the automatic cinema distribution account

Article 222-11

…pany, enabling verification that the work has been produced under the conditions set out in article 211-7 and article 211-13. The President of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée may re…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for authorisation.

Article R5121-22

Where the application for marketing authorisation concerns a generator, it shall also include: 1° A general description of the system and a detailed description of the components of the system likely…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-25-2

…ject a subsidiary having its head office in that Member State to the rules set out in Articles R. 356-26 and R. 356-27, it may issue reservations to the group supervisor, in the absence of a joint dec…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-22

…ameters are specified in Articles 241 and 242 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/35 of 10 October 2014.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: Register matters.

Article ANNEXE, art. 29

…it was inadmissible because an essential condition was missing, the court in charge of the register may strike it off ex officio. It must inform the interested person of the proposed striking off and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R4031-21

…other.The rights of access and rectification provided for in articles 49 and 50 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, as well as the rights to eras…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: La Poste

Article L518-25-1

…same credit institution conclude an agreement, under the conditions provided for in article L. 518-25, which specifies the conditions under which any depositor in possession of a Livret A opened with…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Exercise of control

Article L612-29-1

…of persons falling within the remit of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or who may be subject to its supervision draws up a code of conduct in respect of marketing and customer pr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Valuation of securities.

Article R3332-22

When the investment instruments of a company savings plan include the possibility of investing in company securities which are not admitted to trading on a regulated market, their valuation is determi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-21-1

Where the court considers that the sale of all or part of the business is conceivable, it shall appoint an administrator, if one has not already been appointed, to take all necessary steps to prepare…

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