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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Local experimental protocols

Article L4011-4-3

Professionals practising in the same public or private health establishment or in several different establishments within the same territorial hospital grouping mentioned in article L. 6132-1, within…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Agriculture and forestry

Article L4424-33-1

Within the scope of the powers granted to it in the agricultural and forestry fields by Article L. 4424-33, the territorial collectivity of Corsica is responsible for the production and propagation of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Democratisation and transparency.

Article L5211-39-1

In order to ensure better organisation of services, in the year following each general renewal of the municipal councils, the president of the public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Democratisation and transparency.

Article L5211-39-2

In the event of the attachment of a commune to a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status under the conditions provided for in article L. 5210-1-2, the creation of s…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Specific inspection regime

Article L613-33-2

…to the supervision exercised by the competent authorities of the home State, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution is responsible for monitoring compliance by the persons referred to i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Specific inspection regime

Article L613-32-1

I. - The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may ask the authority responsible for the supervision of a group on a consolidated basis or the competent authorities within the meaning of Ar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Specific inspection regime

Article L613-33-1

When applying the provisions of Article L. 612-2 to members established outside France of a clearing house established in France, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall take into a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Specific inspection regime

Article L613-33-4

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may carry out on-site inspections of branches of the investment firms referred to in Article L. 532-18-1 under the conditions laid down by decree o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Inspections and investigations

Article L621-9-3

In the context of the inspections and investigations referred to in Articles L. 621-9 and L. 621-9-1, professional secrecy may not be invoked against the Autorité des marchés financiers or, where appl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors of the Executive Board.

Article L225-37

The Board of Directors may only validly deliberate if at least half of its members are present. Any clause to the contrary is deemed unwritten. Unless the Articles of Association provide for a greater…

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