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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Interest rates

Article L341-48-1

In the event of failure to mention or incorrect mention of the overall effective rate provided for in article L. 314-5, the lender may be deprived of the right to interest in the proportion set by the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6b: SME Innovation Account

Article L221-32-4

Taxpayers whose tax domicile is in France may open an SME innovation account with a credit institution, the Caisse des dépôts et consignations, the Banque de France or an investment firm. Each taxpaye…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Obligations of the management company, the entity responsible for centralisation and the statutory auditor

Article L214-24-46

Under the conditions defined by the general regulations of the Autorité des marchés financiers, responsibility vis-à-vis third parties for centralising subscription and redemption orders for units or…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: European patents and European patents with unitary effect

Article L614-16-4

A European patent with unitary effect and a French patent application or a French patent with the same filing date or the same priority date, covering the same invention and belonging to the same inve…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-4-9

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may require Class 2 and Class 3 investment firms to make additional or more frequent disclosures than those provided for in Title III of Book V or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with healthcare service providers

Article L1435-4-1

The regional health agencies shall enter into a contract with each tenured or non-tenured university lecturer in general medicine covered by article…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-4-1

When guardianship has been opened in respect of the stipulator, the subscription or surrender of a life insurance contract and the designation or substitution of the beneficiary may only be carried ou…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other conditions of access and practice

Article L519-3-4

Where the intermediary acts on behalf of a credit institution, a finance company, an electronic money institution that provides payment services, a payment institution, another intermediary in banking…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-9-4

The holder of a marketing authorisation for a medicinal product shall immediately inform the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, specifying the reasons, of any action…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Common provisions

Article L5211-41-2

When a syndicat de communes already exercises, on behalf of the communes that make it up, the competencies set by the present code for communities of agglomerations or communities of communes, this sy…

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