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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Decisions to award financial assistance

Article 121-1

In accordance with the…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to investment service providers other than portfolio management companies

Article D533-12

The retail client may waive part of the protection afforded by the rules of conduct. In this case, the investment services provider other than an asset management company may treat the retail client a…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Sales of medicinal plants.

Article D4211-12

Where the use of medicinal plants listed in the Pharmacopoeia has been authorised in food supplements pursuant to decree no. 2006-352 of 20 March 2006 relating to food supplements, these food suppleme…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Failure to comply with the obligation

Article D8254-12

In the light of the documents sent to him pursuant to articles D. 8254-2, D. 8254-4 and D. 8254-5, the Director General of the French Office for Immigration and Integration decides, in accordance with…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Professional acts

Article D4362-12

The dispensing of ametropia corrective lenses by an optician is subject to the presentation or verification of the existence of a medical or orthoptic prescription for these products.The medical presc…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Professional certificate in youth, popular education and sport

Article D212-12

The professional certificate is awarded for a subject area, a multi-disciplinary area or a specific field. Each option is created after consultation with the "sport and entertainment" professional adv…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Supervision of the financial system, cooperation and exchanges of information

Article L785-12

I.-Subject to the adaptations provided for in II and III, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in th…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Advisory procedure

Article 122-4

Where the present general regulations so provide, decisions to award financial assistance are taken by the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée after obtaining the opinion of…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title II: Property.

Article 1281-13

The third-party purchaser shall arrange for the notification provided for in Article 2464 of the Civil Code by bailiff's deed, at the addresses elected by the creditors in their registrations. He shal…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers

Article L511-12

Officers are empowered to investigate and record: 1° Infringements of the regulatory provisions adopted pursuant to II of article L. 231-1, articles L. 231-5, L. 231-6, L. 236-1, L. 236-2 and L. 236-4…

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