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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: The Governor and Deputy Governors.

Article R142-20

The Governor may delegate his powers to the General Managers, Department Managers and Branch Managers, for the purpose of ensuring, in the departments or services under their authority, compliance wit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Bonds issued by associations.

Article D213-20

Any advertisement or form concerning the issue will mention the existence of the information document and specify how it can be obtained free of charge.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Professional private equity funds.

Article R214-204

Unless otherwise stipulated, articles R. 214-34 to R. 214-46 apply to funds covered by this sub-paragraph.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Employee savings funds.

Article R214-207

Unless otherwise stipulated, articles R. 214-32-9 to D. 214-33 apply to funds covered by this sub-section.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Specialised professional funds.

Article R214-202

Unless otherwise stipulated and with the exception of articles R. 214-32-16 to R. 214-32-42, articles R. 214-32-9 to D. 214-33 apply to funds covered by this sub-paragraph.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Professional private equity funds.

Article R214-206

A professional private equity fund may borrow up to 30% of its assets.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Legal action by trade unions in the event of redundancies

Article D1235-20

Once the period stipulated in 3° of article D. 1235-19 has elapsed, the employee's tacit acceptance is deemed to have been obtained.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Application for approval

Article R1253-20

The application for approval must be accompanied by the information and documents listed at 1° to 5° of article D. 1253-1, as well as the collective agreement that the employers' group intends to appl…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation

Article R1271-20

In order to assess the conditions for maintaining authorisation, the Minister responsible for personal services may, at any time, ask the authorised issuer to update the documents in its authorisation…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Chairman and Vice-Chairman

Article R1423-20

On pain of inadmissibility, the appellants shall notify the candidates whose election is contested of the appeals mentioned in article R. 1423-19. This notification is made by registered letter with a…

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