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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Transactions carried out by supplementary occupational pension funds

Article L143-2-3

I.-The custodian referred to in article L. 143-2-1 shall be appointed by means of a written contract. This contract shall provide for the transmission to the custodian of the information necessary for…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article L641-3

The judgment opening the judicial liquidation has the same effects as those provided for in the case of safeguard by the first and third paragraphs of I and by III of Article L. 622-7, by the articles…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Self-employed persons, members of the liberal professions and the self-employed.

Article L6331-50

The contributions referred to in Article L. 6331-48 are collected by the bodies referred to in Articles L. 213-1 and L. 752-4 of the Social Security Code and are paid to France Compétences, up to 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 L370-2

…nt authority of their home country and the communication by this authority to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution of the required information, defined by decree of the Conseil d'Etat,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Gametes.

Article L1273-6

As stated in Article 511-13 of the Criminal Code, reproduced below: "Making the benefit of a gamete donation conditional on the designation by the recipient couple of a person who has voluntarily agre…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Research on the human embryo, human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells

Article L2163-8

As stated in Article 511-19-3 of the French Criminal Code, reproduced below:Art. 511-19-3: Importing or exporting embryonic stem cells for research purposes without having obtained the authorisation r…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Single section: Administrative police measures

Article L532-3

Failure to carry out measures ordered pursuant to articles L. 521-4 to L. 521-16 and L. 521-19 to L. 521-22 is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €15,000. The fine may be increased to…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Single section: Administrative police measures

Article L532-2

Failure to comply within the allotted time with an injunction relating to offences or breaches found with the powers mentioned in article L. 511-15 is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Industrial preparation and wholesale.

Article L5441-3

Failure by a sponsor, either within the two-month period preceding the clinical trial or when a substantial amendment to the trial is made, to send the Agency the information required by law relating…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Respective responsibilities of the State and the region

Article L4383-2

For each of the professions mentioned in Titles I to VII of this Book, the number of students or pupils admitted to undertake studies with a view to the award of the diplomas, certificates or other ev…

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