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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article R783-11

I. - Subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-13

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall accompany any application for approval of an internal model with documentation demonstrating that the model meets the requirements set out in Articles R. 3…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personal data protection committees and competent authority

Article L1123-1-1

I. - A National Commission for Research Involving the Human Person, responsible for coordinating, harmonising and evaluating the practices of the Committees for the Protection of Individuals, has been…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4131-1-1

The Minister for Health or, by delegation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion may, following the opinion of a commission composed in particular of professionals, individually autho…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Strategic Grouping Committee

Article R6132-10-1

I.-The Strategy Committee adopts the shared medical project, on the basis of proposals from the Group Medical Commission, in accordance with the conditions set out in article R. 6132-3.II -The Strateg…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE XI: FINANCES OF THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF FRENCH GUYANA

Article L71-110-2

Prior to the debates on the draft budget, the president of the assembly of French Guiana shall present a report on the situation with regard to sustainable development concerning the operation of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE X: FINANCES OF THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF MARTINIQUE

Article L72-100-2

Prior to the debates on the draft budget, the President of the Executive Council of Martinique shall present a report on the situation with regard to sustainable development concerning the operation o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Appeal procedures.

Article R661-1

Judgments and orders made in matters of ad hoc mandate, conciliation, safeguard, legal redress, professional recovery and legal liquidation are enforceable ipso jure on a provisional basis.However, ju…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Administration of establishments in the network of chambers of commerce and industry

Article L712-11-1

Without prejudice to specific legislative provisions, when a private-law or public-law person takes over all or part of the activity of a chamber of commerce and industry, whatever the legal classific…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Conversion of sentences

Article 747-1-1

In the event of a change in the sentenced person's situation since the sentencing decision that does not allow the sentence imposed to be enforced, the sentence enforcement judge may ex officio, at th…

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