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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Special provisions applicable to clinical trials on medicinal products

Article L1124-1

I.- Clinical trials of medicinal products are governed by the provisions of Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014. The competent authority for carr…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Common provisions.

Article L322-2

I. - No person may, directly or indirectly, administer or manage a company subject to State control by virtue of article L. 310-1 or article L. 310-1-1, a société de groupe d'assurance defined in arti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article L613-49-2

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, in particular Articles L. 640-4 and L. 640-5 of the French Commercial Code, compulsory liquidation proceedings instituted by Book VI of the French Commer…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article L613-49-3

Where warranted by the implementation of resolution measures, the Chairman of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, at the request of the collège de résolution, may ask any court to st…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article L613-49-1

I. - The resolution board may only take one or more resolution measures in respect of a financial institution mentioned in 3° of I of Article L. 613-34 if the conditions for triggering a resolution pr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Procedural obligations and rights of appeal

Article L613-58-1

The annulment of measures taken in application of sub-sections 9 and 10 does not affect the validity of the acts taken for their application when the calling into question of these acts is likely to p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VII: Administrative injunctions and penalties

Article L470-2

I. - The administrative authority responsible for competition and consumer affairs is the competent authority for imposing administrative fines to punish the breaches referred to in Title IV of this B…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The National Enforcement Committee

Article L561-37

Any breach of the provisions of Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of this Chapter, of Chapter II of this Title, of directly applicable European provisions on combating money laundering and terrorist financing, i…

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

Article L532-50

I.-The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall not grant authorisation to the branch of the applicant third-country undertaking unless the third-country undertaking to which the branch…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Retirement savings plans giving rise to membership of a group insurance contract

Article L142-7

…1 January 2023, insurance undertakings may be authorised, under the conditions set out in this article, to transfer all or part of their portfolio of commitments corresponding to :the contracts mentio…

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