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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 707-2

…of the fine under the conditions provided for in the first paragraph, these amounts are reduced by 20% without this reduction exceeding €1,500. If an appeal is lodged against the penal provisions of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions specific to credit institutions, finance companies, investment firms, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and central counterparties

Article L613-32-1

…plicable, the decisions taken on the basis of Articles L. 511-41-3, L. 612-32, L. 612-33 and L. 613-20-4 ; 2° Performs the tasks provided for in Article L. 613-20-1 , II, 2. When the Autorité de contr…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title I: Rules common to non-marine damage insurance and life and health insurance

Article A111-6

…to A. 111-5 apply to group insurance contracts and memberships concluded or taken out no later than 20 December 2012 and to these contracts and memberships tacitly renewed after this date. However, ar…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2

Article R421-42

…tants who record extracts of judgements and settlements in accordance with the provisions of decree no. 66-136 of 4 March 1966 recover, under the same conditions as fines, the surcharge of 50% introdu…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Fonds de compensation des risques de l'assurance de la construction.

Article R431-59

…he seventh paragraph of article L. 431-14 are defined in the first paragraph of article 1 of decree no. 62-235 of 1 March 1962 amended by article 1 of decree no. 76-879 of 21 September 1976, and for t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4a: Fate of stored embryos

Article R2141-23-1

The couple or unmarried woman whose embryos are stored are consulted, in writing, each calendar year on whether they wish to continue this storage method under the conditions set out in Article L. 214…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Pharmacovigilance notification and reporting

Article R5141-107

…veterinary medicinal products authorised by the European Medicines Agency in Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-147-1

…ed to in Article L. 228-1 or money market instruments, within the meaning of Article 4 of Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in financial in…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title V: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article L651-2

…in Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the words: "Article 14 of Regulation (EU) No 524/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the online settlement of consum…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title V: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article L651-1

…4-1 à L. 614-4 in Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the words: "Regulation (EU) No 524/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the online settlement of consum…

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