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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Local savings companies.

Article R512-55-1

…d by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or the European Central Bank, as the case may be, he is replaced either by his alternate if he was elected by a two-round majority uninominal…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation to set up within a reference area

Article R761-12-5

The file initially sent by the applicant may include only the first part of the application as defined in Article R. 761-12-1. In this case, the provisions of Article R. 761-12-2 only apply to the fir…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who hold evidence of formal qualifications issued by one of these States or by a third State and recognised by a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Article R4221-13-5

The Director General of the Centre national de gestion, acting on behalf of the Minister for Health, will issue the licences provided for in articles L. 4221-14-1 and L. 4221-14-2, after obtaining the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors of the Executive Board.

Article L225-54-1

An individual may not simultaneously hold more than one office as chief executive officer of sociétés anonymes having their registered office on French territory. As an exception to the provisions of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of full adoption

Article 370-1-5

…gether in the order chosen by them, subject to a limit of one surname for each of them. This option may only be exercised once. This option may be exercised only once. In the absence of a joint declar…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Administration and control

Article L1524-5-1

…pter V of Title II of Book II of the Commercial Code. The fourth to tenth paragraphs of article L. 1524-5 of this code are applicable to representatives of local authorities and their groupings appoin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Operating rules

Article L214-24-53

…pendence required for the proper performance of the statutory auditor's duties are not met, the AMF may ask the competent court to relieve the statutory auditor of his duties in accordance with the pr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Hearings

Article R2333-120-54

…or attending the deliberations are subject to the obligation to observe secrecy, failing which they may incur the penalties provided for in article 226-13 of the Criminal Code.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Directors

Article L511-53-1

…nt supervisory functions or to their related parties are subject to appropriate documentation which may, on request, be made available to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution. For the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D71-114-5

No expenditure incurred on behalf of the local authority may be paid unless it has first been authorised by the local authority's chairman against a duly appropriated credit line..

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
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