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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General rules governing UCITS

Article L214-8

…he units of which are issued and redeemed at the request of subscribers or unitholders, as the case may be, and at the net asset value plus or minus fees and commissions, as the case may be. The provi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-4

…thdrawal of a marketing authorisation or registration of a veterinary medicinal product, the Agency may order the person responsible for placing the product on the market to withdraw the medicinal pro…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter V: Termination of the contract

Article L2395-1

The purchaser may terminate the defence or security contract in the cases provided for in articles L. 2195-2, L. 2195-3 and L. 2195-5. It may also terminate the contract if performance of the contract…

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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 R2193-8

Any change during the performance of the contract in the allocation of services between the contractor and the subcontractors paid directly or between the subcontractors themselves requires the modifi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates

Article R633-5

…633-7, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or, where applicable, the Autorité des marchés financiers, as coordinator, shall provide the Joint Committee of European Supervisory Author…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of owners of all or part of built-up buildings with regard to detection

Article R1334-16

…nd products on list B containing asbestos, in order to draw up the report required under article L. 1334-13 in the event of sale.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 231-28

Cinema operators may submit an application for a first classification in year n+1 in the following cases:1° Opening of the cinema between 1st January and 31st December of year n-1;2° Refusal to classi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Provisions applicable before the Court of Cassation

Article R*49-32

…the case is distributed or his delegate, at the request of one of the parties or of his own motion, may, in urgent cases, reduce the time limit provided for in articles R. * 49-30 and R. * 49-31. It s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R4152-2

Independently of the provisions relating to breastfeeding set out in articles L. 1225-31 and R. 4152-13 et seq, pregnant or breastfeeding women must be able to rest in a lying position, under appropri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-46

…py of the decisions authorising the manufacture of the speciality concerned and issued, as the case may be, either by virtue of the manufacturer's national legislation or in application of articles R.…

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