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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article D773-22

…Article D. 533-4, the words: "referred to in the first paragraph of paragraph 1 of II of Annex 2 of Directive 2014/65/EU of 15 May 2014," and the words: "in accordance with Article 71(4) of Commission…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article D774-22

…Article D. 533-4, the words: "referred to in the first paragraph of paragraph 1 of II of Annex 2 of Directive 2014/65/EU of 15 May 2014," and the words: "in accordance with Article 71(4) of Commission…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and special schemes.

Article 208 C

…ment companies are defined as joint stock companies listed on a regulated market in accordance with Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in fi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Master and feeder UCITS

Article L214-22

…t out in this article.II. - A master UCITS is a French or foreign UCITS approved in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 which meets the f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exchange of information

Article L561-27

The department referred to in Article L. 561-23 shall receive, at the initiative of State administrations, local and regional authorities, public establishments, the bodies referred to inArticle L. 13…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Accounting

Article D4425-41

The revenues of the Corsican local authority, regional, departmental, interregional and interdepartmental public establishments and any public body resulting from an agreement between the Corsican loc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Liability and protection of elected representatives

Article L2123-35

The mayor or the elected municipal representatives deputising for him or having received a delegation benefit, on the occasion of their duties, from protection organised by the municipality in accorda…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D3661-16

I.-For the application of Article D. 3661-15 : a) The population to be taken into account is the sum of the total populations, municipal and counted separately, of the member municipalities of the Lyo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D5217-17

I. - For the application of Article D. 5217-16 :a) The population to be taken into account is the sum of the total populations, municipal and counted separately, of the member municipalities of the me…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 77-3

The request referred to in II of Article 77-2 shall be made to the public prosecutor under whose direction the investigation is being conducted. Failing this, if this information is not known to the p…

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