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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Approval

Article L532-9-2

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 229-4 of the Commercial Code, the Autorité des marchés financiers also has the power to oppose, in accordance with the provisions of Article 8(14) and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The National Enforcement Committee

Article L561-37

…ions of Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of this Chapter, of Chapter II of this Title, of directly applicable European provisions on combating money laundering and terrorist financing, including those of the Eu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Preliminary section: The single body responsible for business formalities

Article R123-30-1

Persons legally established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who wish to carry out on national territory on a temporary or occasion…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General-purpose investment funds.

Article R214-32-21

…hs or less, provided that the credit institution has its registered office in a Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or, if its r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article R561-8

…not required to identify the beneficial owner of the business relationship when their customer is a company whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market in France, in another Member…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Manufacture and import of investigational medicinal products.

Article R5124-57-3

Where batches of investigational medicinal products come from another Member State of the European Community or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and are manufactured or imported in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Operation

Article R6144-6

The chairman of the hospital medical committee ensures that the committee operates smoothly. In order to carry out its duties, the Institutional Medical Committee shall draw up its own rules of proced…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIII: The use of telecommunications during proceedings

Article 706-71

In the interests of the proper administration of justice, audiovisual means of telecommunication may be used in the course of criminal proceedings, if the magistrate in charge of the proceedings or th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Professional inadequacy.

Article R6152-80

When the national status committee is called upon to give an opinion on the professional inadequacy of a hospital practitioner, it sits with a composition and according to the procedures determined in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-19

…end of the financial year and the date on which the accounts are closed, they are mentioned in the report of the competent body to the body called upon to approve the accounts. When they occur after…

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