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

Article L311-51

…ansfers to be effective, the resolution college may require the person subject to a resolution procedure, or any entity of the group to which it belongs, to provide the acquirer with the services or i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Arrest and surrender

Article 627-5

Any person apprehended by virtue of a request for arrest with a view to surrender must be brought before the public prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction within twenty-four hours. Within this perio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Payment service providers

Article L572-5

…the thing that was used or intended to be used to commit the offence or of the thing that is the product of the offence, with the exception of objects that can be returned;5° The posting or disseminat…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: European patents

Article R614-5

…ion into a French patent application takes place as soon as the Institut national de la propriété industrielle receives the request. It is assigned a national registration number. Subject to the provi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: The freedom to provide services in the activity of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction by nationals of Member States of the European Union and States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Article R321-58

…tice of the activity of voluntary sales of movable property by public auction for at least one year during the ten years prior to the first sale in France when neither this activity nor the training l…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Agency System Steering Committee

Article R1411-58-1

…rman, the Committee comprises nine ex officio members:1° The Chairman of the Etablissement français du sang ;2° The Director General of the Agence nationale chargée de la sécurité sanitaire de l'alime…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions on the valuation of prudential technical provisions

Article R351-5

…than investment grade does not exceed the equalising adjustment for good quality assets of the same duration and category; 4° The use of external credit assessments in the calculation of the equalisin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Transfer of the business.

Article L642-5

After obtaining the opinion of the public prosecutor's office and hearing or duly summoning the debtor, the liquidator, the administrator where one has been appointed, the person or persons appointed…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Powers

Article L5217-5

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 57-1

Officers of the judicial police or, under their responsibility, officers of the judicial police may, in the course of a search carried out under the conditions provided for in this code, access via a…

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