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Showing 90019010 of 32230 articles for Art. Loi 2011-900 du 29-7-2011

French General Tax CodeIn force
5°: Allocation of free shares to company employees

Article 1127

…Articles L. 322-13 and L. 322-22 of the Insurance Code relating to national insurance companies; 4° Loi n° 73-9 du 4 janvier 1973 relative à la mise en oeuvre de l'actionnariat du personnel à la Socié…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Common provisions

Article R53-21-23

No interconnection, matching or linking within the meaning of the loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés ne peuvent être effectués entre le fichier prév…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Investment recommendations produced or disseminated as part of a journalistic activity

Article L621-32

…Only persons in the categories listed in the same 1° may join.The association draws up a code of conduct. This code defines the specific rules intended to ensure compliance by members of the associati…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Investment recommendations produced or disseminated as part of a journalistic activity

Article L621-33

…archés financiers of facts likely to constitute a breach by a member of the rules of the code of conduct referred to in the same article.Notwithstanding Articles 42 et seq. of Act 86-1067 of 30 Septem…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Investment recommendations produced or disseminated as part of a journalistic activity

Article L621-34

…or when he has been repeatedly sanctioned for breaches of the rules defined in the code of good conduct. No sanction may be imposed without the person concerned or his/her representative having been…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Investment recommendations produced or disseminated as part of a journalistic activity

Article L621-31

…ere they are members of the association set up under the conditions and in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article L. 621-32: - publishers of press publications within the meaning of law n…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Investment recommendations produced or disseminated as part of a journalistic activity

Article L621-35

Each year, the association draws up a report on its activities. It submits this report to the Autorité des marchés financiers, which provides its observations and recommendations on the association's…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Parent companies having their registered office outside the European Economic Area

Article L633-15

For the purposes of the supplementary supervision provided for in this chapter, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may enter into the agreements provided for in Article L. 633-5 with…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Parent companies having their registered office outside the European Economic Area

Article L633-14

Where regulated entities belonging to a group carrying on activities in both the banking and investment services sector and the insurance sector have as their parent undertaking a company whose regist…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Honorary status of former councillors to the Assembly of French Guyana

Article L7125-37

Honorary office is conferred by the representative of the State in the territorial collectivity of French Guiana on former councillors to the assembly of French Guiana who have exercised their electiv…

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