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Showing 641650 of 1009 articles for Art. LD-AdIC §§ 511–561

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Supervision on a consolidated basis by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and college of supervisors

Article R613-3-9

In exceptional cases, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall organise, on its own initiative or at the reasoned request of any competent authority responsible for the supervision o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions concerning monitoring, controls and investigations

Article R632-1-1-A

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the Autorité des marchés financiers shall communicate, on their own initiative, to the competent authorities of another Member State of the Eur…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organs, tissues, cells and products.

Article L1272-5

As stated in Article 511-7 of the Criminal Code, reproduced below: "The fact of removing organs or transplanting organs, removing tissues or cells, transplanting tissues or administering cell therapy…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter V: Other institutions

Article L615-1

The Minister for the Economy shall appoint a Government Commissioner to any central body mentioned in Article L. 511-30, credit institution or finance company where the State has entrusted them with p…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: APPLICATIONS FOR RESIDENCE PERMITS

Article R431-18

Foreign nationals mentioned in 6° to 11° and 13° to 18° of article R. 431-16 who wish to remain in France beyond the time limits mentioned in the same article apply for a temporary residence permit or…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article L131-85

The Banque de France shall inform the institutions and persons on which cheques may be drawn, finance companies, the organisations mentioned in Article L. 511-6, electronic money institutions, payment…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: European investment service providers

Article L532-18-1

Within the limits of the services it is authorised to provide in its home country, and depending on the authorisation it has received there, any legal or natural person authorised to provide investmen…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Bills of exchange

Article L511-50

When the presentation of the bill of exchange or the making of the protest within the prescribed time limits is prevented by an insurmountable obstacle such as the legal prescription of any State or a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Control of conditions of access to and exercise of distribution activities

Article R514-1

I.- In order to verify the good repute requirements referred to in I to III and V of article L. 322-2, the body referred to in article R. 512-3 shall request a copy of bulletin no. 2 of the criminal r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial services of the Post and Telecommunications Office

Article L773-16

I.-The provisions of Chapters I to VII of Title I of Book V and those of Chapter II of Title III of the same Book are not applicable to the financial services of the Office des postes et télécommunica…

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