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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Supervision of groups on a consolidated basis

Article R613-1-B

I.-For the purposes of Articles L. 613-20-1 and L. 613-21-1, information is considered essential if it may have a significant impact on the assessment of the financial soundness of a credit institutio…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Advertising rules

Article R2162-28

In order to set up a qualification system, the contracting entity shall publish a notice of the existence of such a system under the conditions laid down in Articles R. 2131-19 and R. 2131-20. This no…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Employee Rights Commission

Article R1233-26-5

…0 and Articles 92, 97 to 99 of the aforementioned Decree of 20 November 2020 as well as Articles L. 2315-14, L. 2315-25and L. 2315-26 of the Labour Code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and operation

Article R1435-32

…agencies, which are responsible for authorising them, under the conditions set by Article 40 of Law No. 2014-1545 of 20 December 2014 on the simplification of business life.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tests to verify knowledge

Article D4221-10

For pharmacy and medical biology, the jury draws up a list in order of merit of the successful candidates, within the limit of the maximum number of persons who may be admitted to the knowledge verifi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Organisation and administration

Article R6133-27

If the constituent agreement so provides, the General Meeting may elect from among its members a select committee to which it delegates, for a fixed renewable term, some of its powers from among those…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article L313-30

…company that assigns or pledges business receivables under the conditions set out in article L. 313-23 may, at any time, issue securities intended for the use of all or part of the loans granted. Succ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Security period

Article 720-2

…nd conditional release are not applicable during the period of security provided for in article 132-23 of the Penal Code. Unless otherwise decided by the pardon decree, the commutation or remission of…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Role of doping prevention medical units

Article D232-3

Athletes who have been sanctioned in application of articles L. 232-21-1 to L. 232-23-3-12 benefit from at least one medical consultation within a doping prevention medical unit.At the end of this con…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Operation

Article L23-114-2

…ars on the electoral propaganda of employee trade union organisations in accordance with Article L. 23-112-2 and former members of the Commission also benefit from this protection, under the condition…

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