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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Intermediary parent companies

Article R517-9

…ional provisions of the Member States of the European Union transposing Directive 2013/36/ EU of 26 June 2013 or Directive 2014/65/ EU of 15 May 2014. For the purposes of this Article, the term "insti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules of good conduct and organisation

Article R548-4

…n as a payment institution agent in the register referred to in article R. 612-20 . II. - Before 30 June, the equity investment intermediary publishes on its website an activity report for the previou…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conseil départemental de l'environnement et des risques sanitaires et technologiques.

Article R1416-1

…n of health and technological risks. It is governed by the provisions of articles 8 and 9 of decree no. 2006-665 of 7 June 2006. It exercises the powers set out in article L. 1416-1 and is also respon…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-4-6

…ot been exempted from the liquidity requirement in accordance with Article 43(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 is in one of the following situations: 1° The investment firm is exposed to a liquidity ri…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Guarantee for sureties

Article L313-50

I. - A surety guarantee mechanism is hereby set up to honour, in the event of default by a credit institution or finance company, the surety undertakings required by law or regulation and given by tha…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Penalties

Article R6112-6

I.- When the Director General of the Regional Health Agency observes a breach of the public hospital service obligations referred to in Article L. 6112-2, he informs the legal representative of the he…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-20

…refers the matter to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to preventive group resolution plans

Article L613-40-1

…the European Banking Authority for the purpose of reaching a joint decision on the basis of Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3 : Assignment of civil servants from the corps d'encadrement et d'application de la police nationale with the status of judicial police officer to the departments referred to in article 16 (4°)

Article A35

…ontre l'immigration irrégulière et le travail illégal des étrangers cité au a du 5 de article R. 15-19 of the Code of Criminal Procedure;-the police department responsible for the safety of people and…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: European patents and European patents with unitary effect

Article L614-1

This section relates to the application of: 1° of the Convention signed in Munich on 5 October 1973, hereinafter referred to as the "Munich Convention"; 2° the Agreement on a Unified Patent Jurisdicti…

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