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Showing 48614870 of 5611 articles for Art. Directive 86/653/EEC – 18 Dec. 1986

French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-23

…mined by a delegated act of the Commission adopted pursuant to paragraphs 4 and 5 of Article 227 of Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 (Solvency II…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Turnover taxes and similar miscellaneous taxes

Article 1609 tertricies

…stituted, intended to finance the public service missions defined in Article 2 of the law of 2 June 1891, the purpose of which is to regulate the authorisation and operation of horse racing. This fee…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Examination of the application.

Article R5141-16

…t of the Member States in which the application for authorisation submitted in accordance with this Directive is under examination, accompanied by a copy of the summary of product characteristics prop…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Decentralised procedure.

Article R5141-47-4

…General of the Agency shall refer the matter to the coordination group referred to in Article 31 of Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council; 2° If the applicant designates a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Special provisions for road traffic accidents occurring in mainland France, the overseas departments and the territorial collectivity of Mayotte.

Article A421-1

…au Central Français des Sociétés d'Assurances contre les Accidents d'Automobiles, headquartered at 118 rue de Tocqueville, Paris, represented by Henri Chatel, its Chairman. IT WAS NOTED THAT : a) Laws…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 7: Special customs investigation procedures

Article 67 bis

I.-Without prejudice to the application of the provisions of articles 60 to 60-10, 61, 62, 63, 63 bis, 63 ter and 64, in order to establish customs offences, if the penalty incurred is equal to or gre…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Points scale for animated works

Article 211-12

For cinematographic works in the animation genre, points are divided into six groups as follows: I.-Production company and authors" group A maximum of 35 points are allocated to the "Production compan…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions applicable to investment service providers

Article L531-2

…ty consists in providing investment services or banking activities within the meaning of Annex I to Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, or in acting as…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Minimum solvency margin requirement

Article R334-13

For the undertakings referred to in Article L. 310-3-2, the minimum required solvency margin is determined, depending on the classes of business carried on, in accordance with the following provisions…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Limited liability companies.

Article L223-30

…animously, change the nationality of the company. Subject to the eighth paragraph of Article L. 223-18, the transfer of the registered office is decided by one or more partners representing more than…

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