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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Directors

Article L511-51

…iciently good repute and have the knowledge, skills and experience required to perform their duties:1° Members of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board and the Management Board, the Chief Exec…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Directors

Article L511-53

…te the necessary human and financial resources to training the persons mentioned in I of article L. 511-52.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Directors

Article L511-54

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the conditions of application of this sub-section.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Directors

Article L511-52

…y manage the business of the credit institution or finance company within the meaning of article L. 511-13 and the members of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board, the Management Board or any…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Issuing cheques in several copies

Article L131-56

…ice versa, or issued and payable in the same part or in various overseas parts of the same country, may be drawn up in several identical copies. Where a cheque is drawn up in several copies, these cop…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Issuing cheques in several copies

Article L131-57

…made on one of the copies discharges the obligation, even if it is not stipulated that this payment cancels the effect of the other copies. The endorser who has passed on the copies to different perso…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Obligation to report and declare.

Article R1221-50

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and the regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator simultaneously receive serious incident report forms, adverse…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Obligation to report and declare.

Article R1221-51

Decisions by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité des médicaments et des produits de santé, following consultation with the Etablissement français du sang and the Armed Forces Bloo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Obligation to report and declare.

Article R1221-52

The provisions of this section shall apply to biomedical research on labile blood products, without prejudice to the provisions of Title II of Book I of Part One of this Code.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Relations with the statutory auditors

Article D612-56

Reasons are given for an unfavourable opinion or an opinion with reservations. In particular, it may be based on the fact that the proposed statutory auditor, or the natural person who has been approa…

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