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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Governance

Article L224-36

…inancial situation and actuarial balance of the auxiliary allocation accounts referred to inarticle L. 142-4 of the Insurance Code. The statutory auditors are then released from their obligation of pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Transferable debt securities.

Article L228-36

…pany or a limited liability company, public limited companies for low-cost housing mentioned in the L. 423-1-1 of the same code may issue non-voting securities. These securities are redeemable only in…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Implementing measures

Article L412-8

…nce contract for the sale of foodstuffs, the trader shall provide the consumer, pursuant to Article L. 221-5, in a legible and comprehensible manner, the information required by Regulation (EU) No 116…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article L5211-24

…n place of the communes making up the public establishment, the allocations provided for in article L. 234-13 of the code des communes, as it stood prior to the loi n° 93-1436 du 31 décembre 1993 port…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Cosmetic surgery

Article L6322-1

…operating conditions. These are subject to certification under the conditions laid down in article L. 6113-3. The creation of these facilities is subject to authorisation by the competent local admin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Obligations relating to the fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, the freezing of assets and prohibited lotteries and games

Article L774-42

…ions set out in II, III and IV, the following shall apply ipso jure in French Polynesia: 1° Article L. 561-1 ; 2° Article L. 561-2 with the exception of its 1° quater, 6° bis, 9° bis only for gaming o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-32

…electric facility, any new facility using other renewable energies defined in particular in article L. 211-2 of the Energy Code, any new facility for the energy recovery of household or similar waste…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Retail distribution.

Article L5424-3

…e is protected; 2° Operating a pharmacy while practising another profession in violation of article L. 5125-2; 3° Operating a pharmacy without medicines being prepared by or under the direct supervisi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Canvassing

Article L754-15

…cated in the right-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 341-1 Law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 L. 341-2 Order no. 2019-1067 of 21 October 2019 L. 341-3, w…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SAINT-BARTHÉLEMY

Article L362-2

…ross borders (Schengen Borders Code) and to the Schengen Borders Code are deleted; 2° 2° of Article L. 311-2, shall not apply; 3° In Article L. 312-1, the words: "in Article 6 of Regulation 2016/399 o…

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