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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L613-35

…on by the European Central Bank pursuant to Article 6(4) of Council Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 of 15 October 2013 and credit institutions or investment firms which constitute a significant part of t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Validation and checks carried out by the presidents of the chambers of trades and crafts

Article L123-44

…ed from being registered in the national register of companies and, if they are already registered, may lead to their automatic removal from the register. For the purpose of carrying out this control,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Searches

Article 706-91

…ences falling within the scope of articles 706-73 and 706-73-1 require it, the examining magistrate may authorise judicial police officers acting on a letter rogatory to carry out searches, home visit…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1-1: Competitive entrance examination to become a commercial court clerk

Article R742-6-1

Candidates for the competition for access to the profession of commercial court clerk may be persons who meet the conditions mentioned in 1° to 6° of Article R. 742-1. The competition is held once a y…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1a: Financing of the insurance allowance

Article D5422-3

…es responsible for collecting unemployment insurance contributions, mentioned in article L. 5427-1, may transmit to the employer or its third party declarant within the meaning ofarticle L. 133-11 of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Public and civil proceedings

Article D1

…association mentioned in the second paragraph of Article 2-9 or in the first paragraph of Article 2-15 may apply for the authorisation provided for by these provisions if it meets the following condit…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Passports and travel documents

Article 953

…at €89.If the applicant provides two passport photographs, as provided for in Article 6-1 of decree no. 2005-1726 of 30 December 2005 relating to passports, the cost of the document is €86.As an excep…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Identification and verification of the identity of occasional customers

Article R561-10

…s R. 561-5, R. 561-5-1 and R. 561-7, in the case of: 1° a transaction referred to in Article L. 561-15 ; 2° a money transmission transaction; 3° a safe-deposit box rental service; 4° a manual foreign…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Financial provisions

Article R4031-45

…ng the appointment of the members of the regional union.Payment to the unions is made no later than 15 August following the due date. Within the same deadline, the bodies responsible for collecting th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-19

…l supervision, a suspended or split sentence or conditional release, the sentence enforcement judge may order, after consulting the public prosecutor, the provisional incarceration of the convicted of…

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