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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Managing Director

Article R411-17

…eport; 5° Preparing the decisions of the Board of Directors and ensuring that they are implemented; 6° Preparing the annual statement of estimates of income and expenditure and amending decisions, and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VI: Committee on abuse of tax law

Article 1653 D

…ing the Chairman shall be made available to the members of the Committee.No member of the Committee may deliberate on a matter in which he himself or, where applicable, a legal entity within which he…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 9: Special provisions for forestry savings companies governed by Article L. 214-121.

Article R214-163

…quired for the exchange of management units with a surface area of less than 10 hectares. Exchanges may only involve assets of comparable value, with, where applicable, a balancing payment, payable by…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Technical and financial profit-sharing

Article A132-16-1

By way of derogation from the allocations provided for in the first paragraph of Article A. 132-16 and in exceptional situations, the provision for profit sharing may be written back after authorisati…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes III

Article Annexe III-15 b (art. A322-74)

Minimum qualifications of the person supervising the groupFUNCTIONSCERTIFICATIONS ISSUEDby FFESSM, FSGT, UCPA,ANMP and SNMPCERTIFICATIONS ISSUEDby CMASSTATE DIPLOMASExploratory air divesPerson supervi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions specific to certain institutions and organisations.

Article L6147-17

The procedures for applying the provisions of articles L. 6147-7 to L. 6147-16 are determined, where necessary, by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Telephone canvassing and commercial prospecting

Article L221-16

…with a view to concluding a contract for the sale of goods or the provision of a service shall indicate at the beginning of the conversation, in a clear, precise and comprehensible manner, his identi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IX: Provisions specific to insurance and reinsurance undertakings covered by the Solvency II regime

Article R322-168

…e company within the meaning of article L. 322-3-2. The Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board may also designate one or more natural persons, who are not mentioned in the previous paragraph, in…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to new building projects

Article R2431-16

…ng that the execution documents and the works in progress comply with the provisions of the studies carried out;2° Ensuring that the documents to be produced by the economic operators responsible for…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Usury rates

Article D314-16

…conducts a survey of euro-denominated loans to collect from credit institutions the data needed to calculate average effective rates. This calculation is based on a simple arithmetic average of the o…

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