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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Professional sport

Article L222-2-10

The sports association or company mentioned in articles L. 122-2 and L. 122-12, in conjunction with the sports federations, professional leagues and organisations representing professional sportsmen a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter X: Digital asset service providers

Article L54-10-1

For the purposes of this chapter, digital assets include: 1° The tokens referred to in Article L. 552-2, with the exception of those fulfilling the characteristics of the financial instruments referre…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: The insurance certificate.

Article R211-21-1

Any policyholder of an insurance contract provided for in Article L. 211-1 must affix to the insured motor vehicle, in accordance with the conditions laid down by an order of the Minister for the Econ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to investment service providers

Article L533-10-2

Without prejudice to the application of Section 8 of Chapter I of Title I of Book V, Articles II and III of Article L. 533-29 apply to credit institutions authorised to provide one or more of the inve…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Implementation through payment of an annual contribution.

Article L5212-10-1

Expenditure incurred directly by the company relating to supply, subcontracting or service provision contracts that it enters into with ... may be deducted from the amount of the annual contribution:…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-10-1

The international sports bodies responsible for initiating or carrying out anti-doping controls at international sports events, as well as the organisers of national or international sports events and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Conditions for issuing, suspending or revoking approval for bodies providing training for local elected representatives (R)

Article R1221-21-3

The manager of the fund for the individual right to training of local elected representatives referred to in Article L. 1621-4 immediately notifies the Minister responsible for local authorities of an…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-10-1

The undertakings mentioned in 3° of I of Article L. 310-2 are foreign undertakings having their registered office in the Swiss Confederation and mentioned in 2° and 3° of Article L. 310-1. For the app…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-10-3

The holder of an intellectual property right protecting the appearance and texture of the oral pharmaceutical forms of a reference medicinal product within the meaning of Article L. 5121-1 may not pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Designation of judicial environmental officers

Article R15-33-29-21

In order to be appointed as a judicial environmental officer, environmental inspectors must have passed a technical examination. The procedures for organising this examination and the test programme a…

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