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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: French UCITS portfolio management companies

Article L532-24-2

I. - A portfolio management company with its registered office in mainland France, the French overseas departments, the Department of Mayotte and Saint-Martin wishing to manage a UCITS established in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Special payment rules

Article L224-25

The compulsory retirement savings plan must be able to receive the following payments, made in cash: 1° The voluntary payments mentioned in 1° of article L. 224-2. The provisions of the second paragra…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the administration and prescription of vaccines

Article R6212-2

I.-The medical biologists mentioned in article L. 6213-1, the doctors and pharmacists authorised to carry out the duties of medical biologist under articles L. 6213-2 and L. 6213-2-1 and the nurses wo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Penalties.

Article L310-28

The fact, for any manager of a société de groupe d'assurance or of a société de groupe mixte d'assurance defined in Article L. 322-1-2, of a mixed financial holding company defined in Article L. 517-4…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Approval of works

Article D332-2

Approval for a cinematographic work is required before filming begins.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Supervision, inspection and discipline.

Article R812-23

The provisions of articles R. 811-57 to R. 811-59 relating to the enforcement of disciplinary sanctions and provisional suspension measures and relating to provisional administration are applicable to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Supervision, inspection and discipline.

Article R812-21

The provisions of articles R. 811-40 to R. 811-42-1 relating to the supervision and inspection of court-appointed administrators are applicable to court-appointed agents and persons designated under t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Supervision, inspection and discipline.

Article R812-22

The provisions of articles R. 811-43 to R. 811-56 relating to the disciplinary procedure before the national commission and the procedure for provisional suspension before the judicial court for judic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Composition of departmental councils.

Article R4152-2

The Departmental Council of the Association of Midwives is made up of four or six full members and four or six substitute members, depending on whether the number of midwives on the most recently publ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Designation

Article L2122-7-2

In municipalities with a population of 1,000 or more, deputy councillors are elected by an absolute majority of the votes cast, without any combination of votes or preferential votes. The list is comp…

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