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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Advisory Committee on the Financial Sector and Advisory Committee on Financial Legislation and Regulation

Article L614-3

Employees who are members of the Comité consultatif du secteur financier or the Comité consultatif de la législation et de la réglementation financières have the necessary time to prepare for, attend…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Financial penalties imposed by the administrative authority responsible for competition and consumer affairs

Article L5473-3

…e subject, for the same acts, of sanction proceedings initiated by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé on the basis of article L. 5471-1 and by the administrative a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Monitoring and penalties

Article L1333-31

…In an emergency involving the safety of persons, the suspension of a nuclear activity that has been duly declared, registered or authorised pursuant to article L. 1333-8 may be ordered as a precaution…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Admission of claims.

Article R624-3

…specify the amount for which the claim is admitted and the securities attached to it and shall reproduce the provisions of the articles L. 622-27 and L. 624-3. The court-appointed agent and the admini…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Automated processing of personal data known as "Therapeutic Use Exemptions for Sportsmen and Sportswomen".

Article R232-85-3

The purpose of the processing mentioned in Article R. 232-85-2 is to : 1° Gathering information on athletes within the meaning of Article L. 230-3 who have been or are holders of a Therapeutic Use Exe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Board of Directors

Article L1432-3

…from the Managing Director; it may reject them by a qualified majority, in accordance with the procedures laid down by regulation.The Board of Directors issues a reasoned opinion on the regional healt…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Procedures and internal control

Article L561-33

…le L. 233-3 of the Commercial Code, they shall put in place at group level an organisation and procedures which take account of the risks identified by the risk classification referred to in Article L…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO FRENCH POLYNESIA

Article L733-3

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR THE WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS

Article L734-3

I.- Are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptation provisions provided for in II and III, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table belo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Tasks and powers of the regional health agencies

Article L1431-3

…powers thus attributed to this regional health agency concern the administrative management of procedures or the adoption of individual decisions in application of specific legislation in the health f…

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