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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L512-63

…ies or mutual insurance companies or supplementary professional retirement funds constituted in the form of mutual insurance companies governed by the Insurance Code, non-profit associations governed…

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

Article L561-9

…Article L. 561-2 may implement the provisions of Articles L. 561-5, L. 561-5-1 and L. 561-6 in the form of simplified due diligence measures in any of the following cases: 1° They consider the risk o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Common rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4113-5

…pplication of the provisions of law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professions subject to a legislative or regulatory status or whose titl…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Governance of the plan

Article R144-13

…n, the Board of Directors may act as the Supervisory Committee. A separate supervisory committee is formed within six months of the association signing a second plan. This committee shall adopt its ow…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Reinsurance.

Article R322-84

Mutual reinsurance companies may be formed between mutual insurance companies or associations thereof or between undertakings affiliated by agreement to the same mutual insurance group company, the ob…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Common provisions

Article 223-20

…determined according to the financial investment made by the distribution company, which takes the form of : 1° By the payment to production companies of advances granted in respect of the showing of…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Notice of modification

Article R3135-10

…out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1986 of 11 November 2015 establishing standard forms for the publication of notices in the framework of the award of public contracts and repealing…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Protection of sole traders

Article L526-25

…nt, which must be determined or determinable. This waiver must comply, on pain of nullity, with the forms prescribed by decree. This waiver may not take place before the expiry of a cooling-off period…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Acquisition of rights

Article R512-1

…titute. The Director General of the Institute may require the application to be filed in electronic form where this is likely to facilitate examination and publication of the application. The Institut…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Common provisions

Article R514-5-1

…Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property may require filing in electronic form where this is likely to facilitate the examination and publication of such documents. The Insti…

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