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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Access to documents.

Article L8113-5

The Labour Inspectorate control officers mentioned in Article L. 8112-1 may request any document or piece of information, regardless of the medium, that is useful for establishing facts likely to veri…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Access to documents.

Article L8113-5-2

For the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences constituting illegal employment referred to in Article L. 8211-1, the inspection officers defined by regulation shall have a right of co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Access to documents.

Article L8113-5-1

For the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences constituting illegal employment referred to in Article L. 8211-1, the inspection officers defined by regulation may, during their visits…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Scope of application

Article L314-3

The provisions of the deposit account agreements referred to in I of Article L. 312-1-1 governing payment transactions are subject to the provisions of this chapter.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Data communication service providers

Article D549-3

The authorisation granted pursuant to I of Article L. 549-2 shall be notified by the Autorité des marchés financiers to the European Securities and Markets Authority.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Retailers' cooperative societies.

Article L124-3

Co-operative societies of retail traders are societies with variable capital constituted in the form of a limited liability company or a public limited company and operating in accordance with the pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 306-1

For the trial of the crimes against humanity mentioned in Subtitle I of Title I of Book II of the Criminal Code, the crime of enforced disappearance mentioned in Article 221-12 of the same code, the c…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 300 quinquies

I. - The tax provided for in article 300 bis is based on the difference between the following amounts, assessed exclusive of value added tax during the calendar year in which the tax becomes due, inso…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: The national financial intelligence unit

Article R561-36

I. - For the purposes of Article L. 561-24, the TRACFIN department shall notify the person designated under I of Article R. 561-23 in writing, directly and by any means, of its opposition to the execu…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Services provided by an institution for occupational retirement provision established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L370-3

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, informed by the competent authorities of the State in which the registered office or principal place of business of the institution referred to in…

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