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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Custodian

Article L214-24-7

…AIF is established in a third country and its management company is authorised by the Autorité des marchés financiers, the depositary may be established in France or in the home country of the AIF.Wh…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 7: Loans denominated in a currency other than the euro

Article R313-30

…ovided to the borrower in the European standardised information sheet referred to in Article L. 313-7.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-6

The deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1° bis, 1° ter, 1° quater and 2° of Article 21 are authorised to record the identity of offenders in order to draw up official reports concerning contr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Formation of the jury

Article 296

The trial jury is composed of six jurors when the court rules at first instance and nine jurors when it rules on appeal. The court must, by judgment, order, before the list of jurors is drawn, that, i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Award conditions

Article R5424-72-2

…le nature of the activity referred to in 3° of article L. 5424-25 corresponds to a drop of at least 30% in the income declared by the self-employed person for income tax purposes corresponding to the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Etablissement public de santé national de Fresnes.

Article R6147-73

…y the Minister of Justice; 2° A member of the National Assembly ; 3° A member of the Senate; 4° The mayor of Fresnes or his representative, appointed from among its members by the municipal council on…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Revenue

Article D6264-7

…an allocation taken from the appropriations allocated to the increase mentioned in article R. 3334-7. This allocation is calculated by applying the ratio of the local authority's population to the na…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Revenue

Article D6364-7

…an allocation taken from the appropriations allocated to the increase mentioned in article R. 3334-7. This allocation is calculated by applying the ratio of the local authority's population to the na…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Invoicing and payment terms

Article R441-7

…sectors defined in III of Article L. 441-15 are: 1° The motor industry sector listed under division 29 of section C of the French activity nomenclature; >The construction sector listed under section F…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Placement under electronic surveillance

Article 723-12

The sentence enforcement judge may at any time appoint a doctor to verify that the implementation of the procedure mentioned in the first paragraph of article 723-8 does not pose a health risk to the…

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