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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Collective investment management companies

Article L543-1

Collective investment management companies are portfolio management companies, legal entities that manage the AIFs mentioned in 3° of III of Article L. 214-24, managers of European venture capital fun…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for initial applications for clinical trials on medicinal products

Article R1124-6

Pursuant to the third paragraph of I of Article L. 1124-1, the personal data protection committees carry out the assessment of Part II provided for in Article 7 of the above-mentioned Regulation of 16…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-43-2

The provisions of Articles 1 to 19 and 34 of Regulation (EU) No 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on personal protective equipment and its annexes constitute the i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Reporting professional misconduct to the competent supervisory authorities and protection of whistleblowers

Article L634-2

The procedure established, pursuant to I of Article 8 of Law 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernisation of economic life, by the persons mentioned…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Public health and environmental whistleblowing

Article L4133-1

…e met, to the reporting or public disclosure mechanism provided for in Chapter II of Title I of Law 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernisation of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Rules governing the use of currency

Article D732-1

Article D. 112-3 is applicable in New Caledonia, as amended by Decree no. 2018-284 of 18 April 2018.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Rules governing the use of currency

Article D733-1

Article D. 112-3 is applicable in French Polynesia, as amended by Decree no. 2018-284 of 18 April 2018.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmaceutical products

Article L5541-2

…and French Polynesia in the version resulting from Order no. 2022-1086 of 29 July 2022.Article L. 5312-3 is applicable there in the version resulting fromOrder no. 2022-1086 of 29 July 2022.Article L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Donation and use of elements and products of the human body.

Article L1542-1

…his Part is applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, in the wording resulting from Law no. 2016-41 of 26 January 2016 on the modernisation of our healthcare system, subject to the following a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Terms of office of board or committee members

Article L5842-5

I. - The articles L. 5211-12 to L. 5211-15 are applicable in French Polynesia, in their wording resulting from Law no. 2019-1461 of 27 December 2019 relating to involvement in local life and the proxi…

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