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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: External control

Article L518-15-2

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall ensure, under the conditions set out in Articles L. 612-17, L. 612-23 to L. 612-27 and L. 612-44, that the banking and financial activities c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Financial provisions

Article L5216-8-1

The loss of revenue suffered by the conurbation community as a result of the extension from fifteen to twenty-five years of the exemptions from property tax on built properties provided for in article…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Direct selling of banking services

Article L754-15

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the provisions of II and III, in the wording indicat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Libraries

Article D1421-5-1

In application of the provisions of article L. 1421-5, the rules relating to departmental libraries are laid down by the provisions of Article R. 330-1 of the Heritage Code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Hygiene of buildings and built-up areas.

Article L1331-11-1

For the sale of all or part of a residential property not connected to the public wastewater collection network, the document drawn up following the inspection of non-collective sanitation facilities…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Links of interest and transparency

Article L1451-1

I.-The members of the commissions and councils sitting with the ministers responsible for health and social security, the members of the ministers' cabinets as well as the directors, management and su…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Collective marks

Article L715-10

In addition to the grounds for revocation provided for in Articles L. 714-5 and L. 714-6, the proprietor of the collective mark shall be declared to have forfeited his rights on the following grounds:…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Relationship between company or establishment agreements and agreements covering a wider territorial or professional scope.

Article L2253-1

The branch agreement defines employees' employment and working conditions. In particular, it may define the guarantees applicable to them in the following areas: 1° Minimum wages ; 2° Classifications;…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Extemporaneous preparation and retail sale.

Article L5442-10

I.-The following offences are punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros:1° Any person prescribing veterinary medicinal products or medicated feedstuffs to animals for which the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: College of candidates

Article L1441-13

The following may be candidates in the employees' college: 1° Non-managerial employees ; 2° Managers who do not hold the special delegation of authority referred to in 3° of Article L. 1441-12; 3° Emp…

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