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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Organisation and operation of the Commercial Court.

Article L722-4

…ised at the request of the public prosecutor, shall designate, if the provisions of Articles L. 722-13 and L. 722-15, the judicial court located within the jurisdiction of the court of appeal called u…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 321-24

…must meet the conditions set out in Article…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Designation of a registrant and a correspondent

Article R561-24

…erred to in 1° to 7°c of Article L. 561-2 shall inform the department referred to in Article L. 561-23 and their supervisory authority designated in Article L. 561-36 of the identity of their managers…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Legal mortgages

Article 2392

Legal mortgages are general or special. The creditor benefiting from a general mortgage may register his right on all immovables currently belonging to his debtor. He may make additional registrations…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Common provision

Article L211-40-1

Article 1195 of the Civil Code does not apply to obligations arising from transactions in the securities and financial contracts referred to in I to III of Article L. 211-1 of this Code.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Administrative penalties

Article L341-44-1

Failure by the lender to comply with any of the obligations set out in articles L. 313-30 to L. 313-32 is punishable by an administrative fine of up to €3,000 for a natural person and €15,000 for a le…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to the operation of people's savings passbook accounts.

Article R221-47

The balance of a popular savings passbook account may be reduced to zero. However, no transaction may have the effect of debiting the account.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Safeguard measures

Article R385-23

…ion with the risk transfer transactions referred to in article L. 381-1;3° A forecast balance sheet;4° An estimate of the financial resources to be used to cover the technical provisions and the requi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 5: Formal notices and orders to perform an obligation to do or not to do something

Article A444-20

…hey give rise to the collection of an increased fee under the conditions provided for in Article A. 444-12:Number of the service (table 3-1 of article appendix 4-7) Description of the service Referenc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Composition

Article R6156-43

…most representative organisation of the institutions mentioned inarticle 2 of law no. 86-33 of 9th January 1986 on statutory provisions relating to the hospital civil service; For the appointment of…

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