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Showing 54715480 of 6655 articles for Art. EU Regulation 2368/2002

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Operating conditions

Article L425-2

…objectives pursued. These rules shall be drawn up in French or, in the cases defined by the general regulations of the Autorité des marchés financiers, in another language customary in financial matte…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions

Article L526-3

…n the transactions referred to in Article L. 526-2 as a regular occupation, subject to the laws and regulations applicable to that activity.For these electronic money institutions carrying out activit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to investment service providers

Article L533-10-1

…tings issued by credit rating agencies within the meaning of point b of paragraph 1 of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on c…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-9

…e procedures for creating the fund and its organisational and operational conditions are defined by regulation. The joint fund is authorised to receive the resources mentioned in article L. 2135-10 an…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-16

…use of its appropriations. This report is published in accordance with the procedures laid down by regulation.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Mergers

Article L2312-41

…her by the French administrative authority pursuant to article L. 430-3 of the same code, or by the European Commission pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) no. 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on mergers.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Nomination, election and status of members.

Article L2352-5

…ticipating companies, subsidiaries or establishments concerned located in France and belonging to a European Company located in a State other than France. For companies located in France, the seats ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Controls

Article L3515-2

…espectively, in articles L. 511-1, L. 521-1, L. 523-1 and L. 531-1 of the Code de la sécurité intérieure (Code of Internal Security) may draw up official reports of breaches of articles L. 3512-8, L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases.

Article L3841-3

…nserted:"By way of derogation from article 850 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, contraventions of regulations applicable locally in order to prevent and limit the consequences for public health of s…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: Unit-linked life assurance or capitalisation contracts.

Article R131-1-4

…ents defined as including bank deposits and financial instruments with a value in excess of 500,000 euros; 2° Carrying out transactions, each of a significant size as determined by the general regulat…

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