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Showing 40014010 of 5611 articles for Art. Directive 86/653/EEC – 18 Dec. 1986

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L511-23

…s of the first paragraph, the entities referred to in points 3 to 23 of paragraph 5 of Article 2 of Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 are treated as fi…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Ordinary powers of investigation

Article L512-20

…ment and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on market surveillance and product conformity, and amending Directive 2004/42/EC and Regulations (EC) No 765/2008 and (EU) No 305/2011 or the enforcement of foo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Inter-company occupational health and prevention services.

Article L4622-9-3

…with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC, and with Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, files and fr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article R228-71

…on distributed ledger technology and amending Regulations (EU) No 600/2014 and (EU) No 909/2014 and Directive 2014/65/EU. However, it may be provided, by a special provision in the contract of issue,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment rules

Article R214-13

…transferable securities and money market instruments are equivalent to the requirements of the said Directive;3° Half-yearly and annual reports on their activities must be produced, enabling an assess…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article R214-46-1

…Chapter IV of Title I of Book II, or UCITS governed by foreign law and approved in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009; b) Be invested i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Undertakings for collective real estate investment.

Article R214-93

…Chapter IV of Title I of Book II, or UCITS governed by foreign law and approved in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 ;b) Be invested i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Individual authorisation.

Article L7124-1

…rliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a single market for digital services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Regulation on digital services).If the authorisation referred to in 5° of this…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Voluntary sales of furniture by public auction.

Article R321-69

…qualification held by the applicant in accordance with the classification set out in Article 11 of Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 as amended on…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Manufacture and import of veterinary medicinal products.

Article R5142-46

…Economic Area when it has been manufactured by an establishment not authorised under Article 44 of Directive 2001/82 of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products…

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