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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Indexation

Article L112-3-1

Notwithstanding any legislative provision to the contrary, the indexation of debt securities and financial contracts mentioned respectively in 2 of II and III of article L. 211-1 is unrestricted.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Negotiable debt securities

Article L213-1

Negotiable debt securities are financial instruments issued at the issuer's discretion, negotiable on a trading platform referred to in Article L. 420-1 or over-the-counter, each of which represents a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definition and activities.

Article R5142-1

…ical trials on animals. Manufacturing includes operations relating to the purchase of raw materials and packaging items, production operations, quality control, batch release, as well as the correspon…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Sports federations with a specialised commission for grades and equivalent grades

Article A212-175-15

The list of federations whose specialised commissions for equivalent degrees award equivalent degrees is as follows: Union des fédérations d'aïkido; Fédération française de judo, jujitsu, kendo et dis…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Inclusion on the list of top-level athletes

Article R221-1

High level sportsperson status is obtained by inclusion on the list of high level sportspersons drawn up by the Minister for Sport on the recommendation of the relevant delegated federation, after con…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L512-1

Mutual and cooperative banks are subject to the rules governing mergers, divisions and contributions of public limited companies set out in Book II of the Commercial Code, even if they are not incorpo…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article R512-1

Mutual and cooperative banks, local savings companies and mutual guarantee companies guaranteeing loans granted by a banque populaire, governed by law no. 47-1775 of 10 September 1947 on the status of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common law provisions.

Article R312-1-2

…account as referred to in article L. 312-1-3, payment incidents as referred to in article L. 131-73 and II of article L. 133-26 and those relating to other irregularities and incidents are subject to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common law provisions.

Article R312-4-1

…ged by credit institutions, referred to in the first sentence of article L. 312-1-3 of the Monetary and Financial Code, may not exceed €8 per transaction and €80 per month per bank account.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Accreditation procedures for opening a medical biology laboratory

Article R6221-1

I.-The French Accreditation Committee shall make the information form and the self-assessment questionnaire available on its website. No later than sixteen weeks before its planned opening date, the m…

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