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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Procedure for recognition of statelessness

Article R582-2

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons may summon the applicant to a personal interview under the conditions laid down in article R. 531-17.The applicant will be heard…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Identification and verification of the identity of the beneficiary of life insurance or capitalisation contracts

Article R561-10-3

…rs, where the annual premium exceeds the thresholds set for these contracts in 1° of Article R. 561-16, under the following conditions: 1° Where the beneficiaries of the contracts are persons or legal…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Sociétés en commandite par actions.

Article L226-2

…r which the founders of public limited companies are responsible by the articles L. 225-2 to L. 225-16. During the existence of the company, unless otherwise stipulated in the Articles of Association,…

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

Article R1124-10

When examining the dossier, the Data Protection Committee may provide the competent authority with ethics-related comments on elements falling under Part I provided for in Article 6 of the aforementio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Organisation and operation of the High Council

Article R821-6

I. - When, pursuant to Article L. 822-16, a request for an opinion on the code of ethics of the profession of statutory auditor is submitted to the Haut conseil du commissariat aux comptes, which shal…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Financing

Article R4382-9

…elopment for the medical auxiliaries, nursing auxiliaries and childcare auxiliaries they employ and may have recourse, for this purpose, to an approved joint collecting body as well as to the approved…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter V: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN FRENCH POLYNESIA

Article R*595-1

…ovisions are applicable in French Polynesia in their wording resulting from Decree no. 2020-1734 of 16 December 2020, unless otherwise stated or mentioned as applying automatically in the table below.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Banknotes.

Article D122-11

The rules for recycling euro banknotes are set out in the Decision of the European Central Bank of 16 November 2010 on the authenticity and fitness checking and recirculation of euro banknotes (ECB/20…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Guardianship arrangements

Article A712-11

…ce with the procedures specified in a standard of intervention provided for in 2° of Article L. 711-16..

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Supervision of apprenticeship training leading to a diploma

Article R6261-17

…51-2, are applicable to the experts appointed by the consular chambers mentioned in article R. 6261-16.

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