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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Budgetary control

Article A211-45

…g management shall be sent to the budget controller at least twice a year, before 31 May and before 30 September, unless an exemption is granted by the budget controller. They include:-an update of th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Responsibility of the competent authorities

Article L532-45

…by managers established in the European Union without the authorisation required in Article L. 532-30 or without the notification referred to in Articles L. 214-24-1 and L. 214-24-2 or without being…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions of validity.

Article L2232-13

…ers. The rules governing the validity of the agreement are those set out in article L. 2232-12. The 30% and 50% rates mentioned in the same article are assessed at the level of the electoral college.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Branch agreements and professional agreements.

Article L2232-7

…article L. 2122-5 or, where applicable, in the elections referred to in article L. 2122-6, at least 30% of the votes cast in this college in favour of organisations recognised as representative at thi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1798 ter

Failures to comply with the obligations laid down in Articles 28 to 30 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/273 of 11 December 2017 and Articles 13 to 20 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Obligations relating to insider lists

Article L451-4

…the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/ EC, 2003/125/ EC and 2004/72/ EC, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2019/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Specific provisions applicable to clinical investigations of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1125-26

…h the medical devices that are the subject of the clinical investigation is punishable by a fine of 30,000 euros.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Procedural provisions and respect for the rights of policyholders and creditors

Article L311-53

…ifying the conditions and duration of the measures provided for in 8° and 9° of I of Article L. 311-30, in accordance with the procedures specified by a decree of the Conseil d'Etat.Where the financia…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Services provided by an institution for occupational retirement provision established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R370-3

…cle R. 332-2 and of any other security not admitted to trading on a regulated market may not exceed 30% of the dispersion base defined in Article R. 332-3 and applied to the portion of the institution…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 1: Temporary residence permit bearing the words "ICT trainee" or "ICT mobile trainee".

Article R*421-52

…aining a temporary residence permit bearing the wording "ICT intern" provided for in article L. 421-30 constitutes a decision to reject. However, silence with regard to an application for a visa for a…

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