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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of financial holding companies, mixed financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-12

The financial holding companies referred to in the fourth and fifth paragraphs of Article L. 517-1, the parent undertakings of finance companies referred to in the sixth and seventh paragraphs of Arti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Organisation of care.

Article L1411-11-1

A primary care team is a group of healthcare professionals formed around primary care general practitioners, who choose to carry out their primary care activities as defined in article L. 1411-11 on t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Admission to psychiatric care at the request of a third party or in the event of imminent danger

Article L3212-1

I.-A person suffering from a mental disorder may only be the subject of psychiatric care on the decision of the director of an establishment mentioned in article L. 3222-1 when the following two condi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Entry on the list of persons qualified in industrial property matters

Article L421-1

A list of persons qualified in industrial property is drawn up annually by the Director of the National Institute of Industrial Property. This list shall be published. Persons on the aforementioned li…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: OFFICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF A DECISION REQUIRING LEAVING THE FRENCH TERRITORY

Article L261-1

The decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory provided for in article L. 721-4, to which foreign nationals whose situation is governed by this book are returned in the event of compuls…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Information to be provided to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.

Article L355-1

Without prejudice to the information transmitted pursuant to Article L. 612-24 of the Monetary and Financial Code, insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall regularly transmit to the Autorité de co…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Compensation for victims of acts of terrorism and other offences.

Article L422-1

For the purposes of Article L. 126-1, full compensation for personal injury is provided through the Fonds de garantie des victimes des actes de terrorisme et d'autres infractions (Guarantee Fund for V…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK III: Certain forms of sale and exclusivity clauses.

Article L310-1

Sales accompanied or preceded by advertising and announced as tending, through a reduction in price, to the accelerated disposal of all or part of the goods of a commercial establishment following a d…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Prevention of business difficulties.

Article L611-1

Any person registered in the Trade and Companies Register or the National Register of Companies as a business in the trades and crafts sector, as well as any individual entrepreneur with limited liabi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Prevention of business difficulties.

Article L611-11

In the event of the opening of safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings, the persons who had consented, in the context of a conciliation procedure having given rise to the approve…

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