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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial and budgetary organisation.

Article D6431-48

For the purposes of preparing the approval, by their respective ministers, of the deliberations of the Board of Directors falling within the joint remit, a supervisory board brings together the member…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial and budgetary organisation.

Article D6431-43

…al year in question, of the operations included in the master plan referred to in 3° of article L. 6431-6 are recorded within this framework. For the operating section, the expenditure proposals and r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of directors and shareholders of market undertakings

Article L421-7-4

…call on a wide range of qualities and skills when recruiting the persons referred to in article L. 421-7 and, to this end, shall implement a policy favouring diversity within the corporate bodies for…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the transfer of activities

Article L613-52-4

Where only the provisions of this sub-paragraph are applied to transfer part of the assets, rights or obligations of a person subject to a resolution procedure, the residual entity shall be wound up i…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: External action by local and regional authorities

Article L1115-4-2

…from their supervisory authority, bodies governed by public law within the meaning of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of proced…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Machinery

Article R4311-4-6

A removable mechanical transmission device is a removable component designed to transmit power between a self-propelled machine or a tractor and another machine by connecting them to the first fixed b…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Policyholder and beneficiary information and pricing

Article A132-4-3

…nformation document or the specific information document provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2014 and Commission Delegated Regulat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-9-4

The holder of a marketing authorisation for a medicinal product shall immediately inform the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, specifying the reasons, of any action…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Aid to establishments retailing new books

Article R1511-43-2

…receding the application or, failing that, for the last financial year preceding the application; > 4° The company's provisional operating accounts for the following two years; 5° The reasons for the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Shareholders' meetings

Article L22-10-40

…Is employed by that company or by a person who controls it within the meaning of Article L. 233-3; 4° Is controlled by or performs one of the functions mentioned in 2° or 3° in a person or entity con…

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