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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Prudential provisions

Article L526-31

An electronic money institution which intends to outsource operational functions shall inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.Essential operational functions may not be outsourced…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Administrative police measures

Article L612-31

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may give formal notice to any person subject to its supervision to take, within a specified period, any measures intended to bring it into complian…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Group agreements.

Article L2232-31

The group agreement is negotiated and concluded between : - on the one hand, the employer of the dominant undertaking or one or more representatives, authorised for this purpose, of the employers of t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Balanced representation of women and men

Article L2314-31

As soon as an agreement or a decision by the administrative authority or the employer on the distribution of the workforce has been reached, the employer shall inform the employees, by any means that…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Agenda

Article L2315-31

When the Social and Economic Committee meets at the request of the majority of its members, the questions attached to the request to convene the meeting are included on the agenda.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Single subsection: Public policy.

Article L3141-31

When an establishment closes for a number of days in excess of the statutory annual holiday entitlement, the employer shall pay employees, for each working day of closure in excess of the statutory an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Reciprocal shareholdings

Article L233-31

Where shares or voting rights in a company are owned by one or more companies which it directly or indirectly controls, the voting rights attached to those shares or voting rights may not be exercised…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable by court order

Article L237-31

Subject to the rights of creditors, the liquidator decides whether to distribute any funds that become available during the liquidation. After unsuccessful formal notice from the liquidator, any inter…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 7: Payment.

Article L511-31

Payment may only be stopped in the event of loss of the bill of exchange or the safeguarding, receivership or liquidation of the bearer..

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Receipts, warrants and storage receipts

Article L522-31

…f the warrant separated from the receipt, may, eight days after the protest, and without any judicial formality, have the public auction and wholesale sale of the goods committed carried out by public…

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