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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Measures specific to the safeguarding, reorganisation or liquidation of credit institutions, finance companies, investment firms, electronic money institutions and payment institutions.

Article L613-30

…firm, the guarantee fund and the depositors are exempt from the declaration provided for in Article L. 622-24 of the French Commercial Code in respect of their claims falling wholly or partly within t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions adapting Book IV.

Article L924-3

The last paragraph of I of article L. 443-1 is replaced by four paragraphs worded as follows: "The investigating judge or the court hearing the case may order the cessation of advertising carried out…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Liability and protection of elected representatives

Article L2123-35

…e municipality for this subscription is offset by the State under the conditions set out in article L. 2335-1 of this code.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Administrative police measures

Article L612-34

…controlled undertaking or undertaking that controls it, within the meaning of II and III of Article L. 233-16 of the Commercial Code, and corresponding to remuneration, compensation or benefits due or…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Subletting.

Article L145-31

…e with a procedure laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 145-56.The tenant must inform the landlord of his intention to sublet by extrajudicial act or by…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 5: Software pledge agreement

Article L132-34

…issement des fonds de commerce, the exploitation right of the author of software defined in Article L. 122-6 may be pledged under the following conditions: The pledge contract shall, on pain of nullit…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Detection of breaches and offences

Article L414-3

…article L. 411-1 record the infringements defined in title III of this book in official reports, which are v…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 8: Restructuring of professional branches

Article L2261-33

…merger of the scope of application of several collective agreements in application of I of article L. 2261-32 or in the event of the conclusion of a collective agreement combining the scope of severa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Compensation for contaminated victims.

Article L3122-3

…nsation has been rejected, if no offer has been made to them within the period mentioned in article L. 3122-5 or if they have not accepted the offer made to them. This action is brought before the Par…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4251-3

I.- Subject to the provisions of article L. 4061-1, persons who have obtained the evidence of formal qualifications or authorisation required to practise the profession of medical physicist, prior to…

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