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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Provisions applicable to investment services providers relating to the design and distribution of financial instruments

Article L533-24-1

…ts, have appropriate systems in place to obtain the information referred to in 3° of Article L. 533-24 and to understand the characteristics and identify the target market defined for each financial i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of financial holding companies, mixed financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-15

…s, continuously monitors compliance with the conditions set out in Article L. 517-13 or, where applicable, Article L. 517-14. Financial holding companies, parent undertakings of finance companies and…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 422-15

…s that the characteristics of the project presented so require, the reading committee or commission may postpone its opinion and, where appropriate, propose to the President of the Centre national du…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Communication and registration of documents.

Article R123-151

Requests submitted to registrars may relate to: 1° Individual files or a group of files; in the second case, they correspond to the search criteria defined by the order provided for in Article R. 123-…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Composition and management of the plan.

Article L3332-15

The sums collected by a company savings plan may be allocated to the acquisition of : 1° Securities issued by open-ended investment companies governed by articles L. 214-7 to L. 214-7-4 and L. 214-24-…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4a: Compensation for victims of benfluorex

Article L1142-24-2

…rs themselves to be the victim of a functional impairment attributable to benfluorex or, where applicable, their legal representative in the case of a minor or their beneficiaries may refer the matter…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions specific to specialised financing bodies

Article D214-240-3

…ules or articles of association of the specialised financing vehicle provide that in the event of a capital loss on the assets held by the specialised financing vehicle, this loss will be allocated eq…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Guarantee fund for policyholders against the failure of life and health insurance companies.

Article R423-15

…each of these three years, to one third of the available resources used by the fund and, where applicable, by an additional allocation to their guarantee fund reserve equal, for each of the three year…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Cooperative societies.

Article R4131-15

Company shares are freely transferable between members. They may only be transferred to third parties with the consent of all the shareholders. If the transferee's consent is refused, the shareholders…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons authorised to canvass.

Article D341-15

The rights of access and rectification provided for respectively in articles 39 and 40 of the aforementioned Act of 6 January 1978 may be exercised with the Banque de France and the persons having app…

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