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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Disciplinary powers

Article R612-50-1

For the purposes of XII of Article L. 612-40 and subject to the second paragraph below, the Enforcement Committee's decisions are published for at least five years in the AMF's official register, whic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Disciplinary powers

Article R612-51-1

When, in the cases provided for in the eleventh paragraph of Article L. 612-39 and in the last paragraph of B of I of Article L. 612-40 where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution has p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions relating to the resolution of banking crises

Article R613-46-5

Where several entities belonging to the same institution of global systemic importance are resolution entities or third-country entities that would be resolution entities if they were established in t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: Markets of national interest and commercial events.

Article L761-5

Within the perimeter mentioned in article L. 761-4, plans to set up or extend premises or groups of premises intended to receive, for the purposes of non-retail sales, products on the list defined by…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Operating rights

Article L333-5

The increase in assets resulting, for beneficiary sports companies, from the transfer of audiovisual exploitation rights provided for in article L. 333-1 is not taken into account when determining the…

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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 L370-5

Where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution identifies major difficulties in applying the provisions of this Title and Title VIII of this Book, it shall inform the Commission and the Eu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L4211-5

Notwithstanding the provisions of 4° of article L. 4211-1, legal entities complying with good distribution practices defined by order of the Minister for Health may be authorised to dispense gases for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Pharmacy inspection.

Article L5127-5

The inspectors referred to in article L. 5127-1 may not engage in any other professional activity, unless it is carried out exclusively in a health establishment. However, they may belong to the teach…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with instalments

Article R2113-5

The services of the firm tranche must form a coherent whole; the same applies to the services of each optional tranche, taking into account the services of all the previous tranches.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Abnormally low tenders

Article R2152-5

A purchaser who finds that a tender is abnormally low as a result of the tenderer having received State aid may reject the tender on this ground alone only if the tenderer is unable to demonstrate, wi…

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