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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions of access and practice

Article R519-8

…When they can provide evidence of one year's professional experience in functions related to the performance of banking transactions or payment services, acquired during the three years prior to regis…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2c: Marine fishing companies

Article 44 nonies

The taxable profits of small-scale fishermen, subject to a real tax regime, who set up for the first time between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2010, are determined, for the first sixty months of act…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 217

…three days by registered letter. In the same way and within the same time limits, the parties are informed of the decisions to dismiss the case and the decisions to refer the case to the criminal or p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Exercise of the right of appeal

Article 508

The clerk of the court shall notify the president of the court of the filing of such application. The judgment shall not be enforceable and the court may not rule on the merits until a decision has be…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: National harmonisation

Article A212-40

The national harmonisation provided for in article R. 212-10-18 is based on:-the regional directors of youth, sport and social cohesion, who are responsible for drawing up regional schedules of prereq…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 8: Nature of the tests leading to the award of the first and second level state diploma for sports instructors and reserved for candidates who are or have been high-level sportsmen and sportswomen.

Article A212-151

The brevet d'Etat d'éducateur sportif du premier degré and the brevet d'Etat d'éducateur sportif du deuxième degré may be awarded to candidates who are or have been top-level sportsmen and sportswomen…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Alpine skiing and related activities.

Article A212-192

If the Service national des métiers de l'encadrement du ski et l'alpinisme considers that there is no substantial difference, or if a substantial difference has been identified and the declarant has p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation

Article L612-16

…rôle prudentiel et de résolution is authorised to bring proceedings before any court in order to perform the duties entrusted to it.II. - The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may bring…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2425

…ve the effect of worsening the debtor's situation, are published in the real estate register in the form of notes in the margin of existing registrations.The same applies to dispositions by inter vivo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Operating conditions

Article L6213-1

…he purposes of this book, a medical biologist is :1° Either a doctor holding one of the evidence of formal qualifications mentioned in article L. 4131-1, or a pharmacist holding one of the evidence of…

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