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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Payment institutions

Article L774-22

…mn of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 522-1 and L. 522-2 Order no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 522-3 Act no. 2018-700 of 3 August 2018 L. 522-4 Order no. 2013-54…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Payment institutions

Article L775-16

…mn of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 522-1 and L. 522-2 Order no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 522-3 Act no. 2018-700 of 3 August 2018 L. 522-4 Order no. 2013-54…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Definition of taxable income

Article 81 ter

…ntended exclusively for their employees, under the conditions laid down by Articles 35 to 44 of Law no. 78-763 du 19 juillet 1978 portant statut de ces sociétés.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Penalties.

Article L328-4

Articles L. 626-2 to L. 626-5, L. 626-12 and L. 626-16 to L. 626-19 of the French Commercial Code are applicable to any person with direct or indirect authority to bind an insurance undertaking, inclu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Judicial police officers

Article D14-1

The judicial police officers listed in article 21 shall give an account of all crimes, offences or contraventions of which they have knowledge in the form of reports sent to their hierarchical superio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Criminal provisions

Article R1238-2

Any collective redundancy for economic reasons of less than ten employees within the same thirty-day period without informing the administrative authority of the redundancy or redundancies decided upo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Electorate

Article R2122-8

The vote is open to the employees mentioned in article L. 2122-10-2, registered on the electoral list provided for in article L. 2122-10-4, with the exception of those in the branches mentioned in art…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF APPLICATION IN SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON, NEW CALEDONIA, FRENCH POLYNESIA AND THE WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS

Article L781-1

…No 2017/1129 of 14 June 2017, No 2019/2033 of 27 November 2019, No 2020/1503 of 7 October 2020, No 2021/23 of 16 December 2020 and No 2022/858 of 30 May 2022 are replaced by references to Articles L.…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General rules.

Article R325-2

…dentiel et de résolution has established that authorisations have lapsed pursuant to Article L. 321-10-2, it shall immediately inform the competent authorities concerned in the other Member States. Wh…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Provisions specific to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Article R910-1

…146-1 and D. 146-2;2° Articles R. 229-1 to R. 229-26 and R. 252-1 ;3° Articles R. 490-5 to R. 490-10;4° Articles R. 522-1 to R. 522-25;5° Articles R. 611-23-1, R. 662-4in its version resulting from…

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