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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions.

Article R214-208

Notwithstanding I and II of article R. 214-32-29, company mutual funds and employee shareholding open-ended investment companies may hold, without limitation, securities issued by the company or by a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions.

Article R214-209

The Autorité des marchés financiers may request that it be provided with information enabling it to ensure that members of the company savings plan are offered at least one investment option that comp…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Status and purpose

Article L513-2

…whose exclusive purpose is to:1° To grant or acquire guaranteed loans, exposures to public entities and securities, deposits and exposures as defined in articles L. 513-3 to L. 513-7 ; 2° For the fina…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Committee of experts

Article A331-27

…tional du cinéma et de l'image animée or his representative; 2° The director in charge of financial and legal affairs at the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée or his representative; 3° Th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Committee of experts

Article D331-26

…examining the requests in the light of the conditions provided for in subsection 1. The composition and organisational and operational procedures of the committee of experts are set by joint order of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Committee of experts

Article A331-28

The Expert Committee may only validly deliberate if at least three of its members are present.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Committee of experts

Article A331-29

…ts choices. Persons heard in this way do not take part in the deliberations of the Expert Committee and are bound by an obligation of confidentiality regarding the content of the information of which…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article R3121-2

…concerned with a document summarising the number of on-call hours worked during the previous month and the corresponding compensation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R6153-2-2

I.-A provisional nominative duty roster organises the time to be spent by the intern in training and outside training. The practitioner in charge of the host unit, in conjunction with the specialty co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: The Compagnie Nationale and the regional companies

Article R821-26

…ncil may, after unsuccessful formal notice from the Compagnie nationale, request statutory auditors and audit firms to send their activity declarations directly to the High Council in accordance with…

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