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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Composition.

Article R6152-321

Hospital practitioners practising in the discipline corresponding to a section are eligible to vote. Practitioners in a position of availability are not eligible to vote. Voter status is determined: 1…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General-purpose investment funds.

Article R214-32-28

I. - A general purpose investment fund may not grant loans or act as guarantor on behalf of third parties. It may, however, acquire financial instruments referred to in article L. 214-24-55 which are…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Conurbation community

Article L5216-1

A conurbation community is a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation that brings together several municipalities forming, on the date of its creation, a contiguous and unenclosed area with…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: The National Register of Companies

Article D123-321

The amounts of the fees payable pursuant to Article L. 123-54 are set, for each formality, by the tables in Appendix 1-4 of this book. No fee is payable in the event of amendments made by the keeper o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-321

Any competition between midwives and doctors, pharmacists, medical auxiliaries or any other persons, even those not involved in medicine, is prohibited.Competition is understood to mean intelligence b…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition

Article L541-1

I.-Financial investment advisers are persons who engage in the following activities on a regular professional basis: 1° Investment advice as referred to in 5 of article L. 321-1 ; 2° (Repealed) 3° Adv…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General rules.

Article R325-2

Where authorisation is withdrawn pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 325-1 or 6° or 7° of Article L. 612-39 of the Monetary and Financial Code , or where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-23

Any approved association that has been registered for at least five years on the date on which the civil party is brought, proposing by its articles of association to combat corruption, may exercise t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-48

I.-A third-country firm establishes a branch in order to provide, in mainland France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte or Saint-Martin, the investment services mentioned in A…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to leave for health or family reasons

Article R6152-818

The provisions of article 15 of decree no. 88-386 of 19 April 1988 relating to physical fitness conditions and sick leave for hospital civil servants are applicable to practitioners governed by this c…

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