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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Implementation

Article L224-33

The individual retirement savings plan giving rise to membership of a group insurance contract, the performance of which is linked to cessation of professional activity, is subscribed by an associatio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-2-2

When a person is admitted for psychiatric care pursuant to Chapters II or III of this Title, he/she is subject to a period of observation and initial care in the form of full hospitalisation. Within t…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 16: Collagens and gelatin

Article R412-32

The enforcement measures provided for in Article L. 412-1 : 1° The provisions of Articles 1 and 2, points 1 and 2 of Chapter I and Chapter V of Section XIV "Gelatin" of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Establishment of parentage by recognition

Article 316-4

Where the referral to the public prosecutor concerns a prenatal acknowledgement or an acknowledgement concomitant with the declaration of birth, the child's birth certificate shall be drawn up without…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Establishment of parentage by recognition

Article 316-5

When the acknowledgement is registered, its effects for the application of articles 311-21 or 311-23 date back to the date of referral to the public prosecutor.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Establishment of parentage by recognition

Article 316-1

Where there are serious indications, based where applicable on the civil registrar's hearing of the person who acknowledged the child, that the acknowledgement is fraudulent, the civil registrar shall…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L754-3

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the provisions of II, in the wording indicated in th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligations of delegated producers

Article L213-32

The line producer transmits the operating account submitted to him in application of sub-section 1 of this section to the other co-producers, to the companies to which he is linked by a financing cont…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligations of delegated producers

Article L213-34

When a contract for the transfer of broadcasting rights for a cinematographic work to a television service publisher provides for additional remuneration based on the results of the exhibition of this…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligations of delegated producers

Article L213-33

Where, for one or more of the modes of exploitation, the line producer directly exploits a long-running cinematographic work, he shall draw up the corresponding exploitation account, in accordance wit…

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