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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 8: Commission for Inter-municipal Cooperation in French Polynesia

Article L5842-11

I. - The articles L. 5211-42 to L. 5211-45 are applicable in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II to IV.II. - For the application of Article L. 5211-42, the words "in each de…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Financial provisions

Article L5722-7

The joint association referred to in article L. 1231-10 of the Transport Code may levy a payment intended to finance mobility services in an urban area of at least 50,000 inhabitants and in the multip…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions.

Article L4363-2

Illegal practice of the profession of hearing aid acoustician, optician-monitor, ortho-prosthetist, chiropodist-orthotist, ocularist, epithesist or orthopaedic-orthotist is punishable by one year's im…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Prevention of business difficulties, ad hoc mandates and conciliation procedures

Article L611-7

…d, where applicable, the results of the expert report referred to in the fifth paragraph of Article L. 611-6.The financial administrations, social security organisations, institutions managing the une…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.

Article L310-12

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution carries out its mission under the conditions set out in Chapter II of Title I of Book VI of the Monetary and Financial Code.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article L356-17

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall supervise risk concentration and intra-group transactions at group level in accordance with the provisions of Sections II, IV, V and VI of th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Agricultural products and foodstuffs

Article L433-1

…ions applicable to the certification of the conformity of agricultural products and foodstuffs are set out in section 3 of Chapter I of Title IV of Book VI of the Code rural et de la pêche maritime.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Label rouge

Article L432-1

The provisions applicable to the red label are set out in sub-section 1 of section 1 of chapter I of title IV of book VI of the code rural et de la pêche maritime.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personal data protection committees and competent authority

Article L1123-14

The procedures for applying the provisions of this chapter are determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, and in particular : 1° The composition and conditions of approval, financing, operation and a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L228-93

…f its capital or by the company of which it directly or indirectly owns more than half of the capital. On pain of nullity, the issue must be authorised by the extraordinary general meeting of the comp…

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