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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions concerning monitoring, controls and investigations

Article L632-10

…members of a regulated market and are not established in France. In such cases, it shall inform the competent authority of the Member State of the European Union or of the other State party to the Agr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Final proceedings before the Police Court

Article 537

Contraventions are proven either by minutes or reports, or by witnesses in the absence of reports and minutes, or in support of them. Except in cases where the law provides otherwise, minutes or repor…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2a: Provisions applicable to certain breaches of the Highway Code

Article 529-11

…e settlement provided for by Article 529-6 may be sent following the discovery of a traffic offence committed using an approved automatic control device. In the event of a complaint being lodged with…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Provisions specific to various commercial companies.

Article R223-18

The annual financial statements, the management report, the text of the proposed resolutions and, where applicable, the consolidated financial statements, the Group management report and the statutory…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article R228-22

The special report of the company's statutory auditor drawn up pursuant to article L. 228-19 includes its opinion on the company's compliance with the special rights attached to preference shares and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The EC quality assurance system

Article R4313-59

Where the report provided for in Article R. 4313-58 concludes that there is a lack of homogeneity of production or that the samples of personal protective equipment examined do not conform to the mode…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single title

Article L811-2-1

…been authorised by the author or his successors in title on the territory of a Member State of the European Community or of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or on the terr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Operating conditions

Article L424-3

Without prejudice to Titles III, IV or V of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial reporting requirements

Article L451-1-4

…ticle L. 451-1-2 do not apply to the following issuers: 1° The States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and their local authorities; 2° The European Central Bank and the central ban…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Other service providers

Article L773-40

…entioned in the table above: 1° In article L. 54-10-3, the words "or in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area" appearing in 3° as well as t…

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