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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Beneficial owner

Article R561-3-0

Where the customer is acting in the context of a trust within the meaning ofArticle 2011 of the Civil Code or any other comparable legal arrangement governed by foreign law, a beneficial owner within…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Beneficial owner

Article R561-2

Where the client of one of the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 is a collective investment scheme within the meaning of I of Article L. 214-1, "beneficial owner" within the meaning of 1° of Art…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Beneficial owner

Article R561-1

Where the customer of one of the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 is a company, "beneficial owner", within the meaning of 1° of Article L. 561-2-2, means the natural person(s) who either direct…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Ancillary financial activity

Article R561-4

For the purposes of Article L. 561-4, insurance mediation by the persons referred to in 3° bis of Article L. 561-2 constitutes an ancillary financial activity for which these persons are exempt from t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Ancillary financial activity

Article D561-4-1

The projects referred to in the second paragraph of article L. 561-2-3 are projects submitted by the same person for which the total of the amounts targeted for financing or the total of the amounts c…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Permanent representative

Article D561-3-1

I.-The persons mentioned in 1° quater of Article L. 561-2 shall appoint a permanent representative when one of the following conditions is met: 1° They have recourse on national territory to a number…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Removal of organs for scientific purposes.

Article R1232-21

Implementation of the protocol is suspended or prohibited if the conditions that justified its authorisation are no longer met and after the establishment or organisation has been invited to present i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Removal of organs for scientific purposes.

Article R1232-22

Prior to any suspension or prohibition decision, the Minister in charge of research will give formal notice to the establishment or organisation responsible for implementing the protocol to put an end…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 2: Obligations.

Article L228-82

The issue of bonds, the repayment of which is guaranteed by a capitalisation company, is prohibited.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Lapse and cessation of activity

Article R1333-140

When a nuclear activity has not begun within three years of the issue of the receipt for the declaration or notification of the registration or authorisation, the declaration, registration or authoris…

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