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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation of the system for combating money laundering and terrorist financing

Article R561-38-1

…ken pursuant to Chapter II of this Title or implemented by virtue of acts taken pursuant to Article 29 of the Treaty on European Union or Article 75 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Un…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Protection and environment

Article R1519-1

…nt-Barthélemy:1° Les dispositions prévues aux 3° et 7° de l'article R. 1331-26, à l'article R. 1331-29 et au premier alinéa de l'article R. 1331-32 ne sont pas applicables ;2° In the third paragraph o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Taxes levied for the benefit of the Ile-de-France region

Article 1599 quater C

I.-An annual tax on parking areas is levied within the territorial limits of the Ile-de-France region.II. - The tax is payable by the owner, usufructuary, lessee under a construction lease, emphyteuti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Criminal penalties

Article L1337-1-1

…pplemented or amended it, are investigated and recorded by the agents mentioned in articles L. 1333-29 and L. 1333-30, authorised and sworn under the conditions set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. Th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-49

…uately monitored by the governance arrangements provided for in Article L. 511-55 or Article L. 533-29, and that the rules of conduct and other professional obligations assigned to their departments c…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-4-6

…° The investment firm does not meet the requirements provided for in Articles L. 533-2-2 and L. 533-29, and it is unlikely that other measures will sufficiently improve the systems, processes, mechani…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Innovation mutual funds.

Article R214-48

I. - The provisions of articles R. 214-32-18 to R. 214-32-21, R. 214-32-29, R. 214-32-32 to R. 214-32-36, R. 214-32-38 to R. 214-32-40 and R. 214-32-42 do not apply to innovation mutual funds.II. - Th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Corporate mutual funds governed by article L. 214-165-1

Article R214-214-2

By way of derogation from I and II of article R. 214-32-29, corporate mutual funds may hold, without limitation, transferable securities issued by the company or by a company belonging to the same gro…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: The National Enrolment and Disciplinary Commission and appeals against its decisions

Article R814-1

…e of 19 December 1945 implementing the status of judicial auctioneers and Article 74-2 du décret du 29 février 1956 pris pour l'application de l'ordonnance du 2 novembre 1945 relative au statut des hu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1. Transferable securities, company rights and similar securities

Article 150-0 D

…nds covered by Article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code as it stood prior to ordonnance n° 2013-676 du 25 juillet 2013 modifiant le cadre juridique de la gestion d'actifs ou de fonds profe…

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