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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Fundamental missions

Article L141-1

The Banque de France is an integral part of the European System of Central Banks, established by Article 8 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, and participates in the performance of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Successive contracts in the same position.

Article L1244-3

When a fixed-term employment contract expires, neither a fixed-term contract nor a temporary employment contract may be used to fill the position of the employee whose contract has expired, before the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: The mayor and deputy mayors

Article L2122-5

Agency employees involved in municipal accounting, the assessment, collection or control of all taxes and duties may not be mayors or deputy mayors, nor may they perform their duties, even temporarily…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for exercising the right to vote and stand for election and rules applicable to the conduct of the ballot for the election of staff representatives to the Board of Directors

Article A211-41

Full members of staff and contract staff with a contract of at least ten months as at the closing date of the ballot, working for the Ecole Nationale de Voile et des Sports Nautiques on the day of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article R50 quinquies

Subject to the rules relating to the secondment and secondment of civil servants, the specialised assistant comes under the authority of the heads of the court of appeal referred to in the first parag…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Operations.

Article D514-13

If the pledged item deteriorates, the borrower may relinquish it to the institution, subject to payment of compensation determined in accordance with the procedures set out in article D. 514-12. In th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article R561-16-2

The persons mentioned in 1° to 1°c of Article L. 561-2, acting as acquirers within the meaning of EU Regulation 2015/751 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2015, shall only acce…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Duties towards patients.

Article R4127-45

I. - Independently of the medical file provided for by law, the doctor keeps a personal observation sheet for each patient; this sheet is confidential and contains up-to-date information necessary for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Contraceptives other than medicines and condoms.

Article R5134-13

Advertising to the public for a product or object defined in article R. 5134-11 may not include any element which : 1° Suggest that the effect of the product or object is guaranteed or that it has no…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article R228-32-1

…ocedures for transmitting that information are specified by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 of 3 September 2018: 1° In Article 2 of that Regulation, as regards the standardised forma…

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