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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Freedom of dissemination

Article L333-8

The transfer of the right to exploit a sporting event or competition to an electronic public communication service does not prevent the partial or full broadcast of this event or competition by anothe…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Company accounts

Article L232-11

The profit available for distribution comprises the profit for the year, less any losses carried forward from previous years and any sums to be transferred to reserves pursuant to the law or the Artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Realisation of assets.

Article L642-20-1

…the second paragraph of Article L. 641-3, the liquidator must, within six months of the judgment of compulsory liquidation, apply to the official receiver for authorisation to proceed with the realisa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Issue

Article R5132-35

A copy of any prescription containing a prescription for one or more medicinal products classified as narcotics or subject to narcotics regulations, bearing the particulars provided for in article R.…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Cooperation and exchange of information

Article L311-57

Notwithstanding the provisions of Law no. 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the communication of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other provisions

Article L632-15-1

…de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution from an authority or person in another Member State of the European Union or another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or from a third…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: General provisions

Article R517-9

…he threshold of 40 billion euros set out in Article L. 517-11, the total value of the assets in the European Union of a group whose parent undertaking is established in a third country is the sum of t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Professional secrecy

Article L511-34

Companies established in France which are part of a financial group or a group comprising at least one finance company or, for the application of 2° of this article, a group within the meaning of arti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-6

When, during a financial year, a company has acquired a holding in a company with its registered office in the territory of the French Republic representing more than one twentieth, one tenth, one fif…

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

Article R214-128

The summary report on the performance of the external valuation experts mentioned in article L. 214-55 is made available to unitholders or shareholders who request it, within forty-five days of the pu…

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