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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Designation of a registrant and a correspondent

Article R561-29

The procedures provided for in the second paragraph of I of Article L. 561-33 enable the exchange of information necessary for vigilance within the group in the fight against money laundering and terr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3 : Assignment of civil servants from the corps d'encadrement et d'application de la police nationale with the status of judicial police officer to the departments referred to in article 16 (4°)

Article A34

…e assigned to one of the departments or to one of the categories of departments defined in articles R. 15-18 to R. 15-26-1 and listed below:1° Services whose territorial jurisdiction covers the entire…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Machinery

Article A322-169

The machines used by the operators are adapted to the nature of the activities proposed. They must be designed and built in such a way as to allow external emergency services to intervene.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: EC declaration of conformity, production quality assurance.

Article R5221-28

…check the manufacturing processes. The decision of the approved body is notified to the manufacturer. It contains the conclusions of the inspection and a reasoned assessment. In addition, for in vitr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Designation of gendarmes as judicial police officers

Article A2

…hnical examination for judicial police officers of the national gendarmerie provided for in article R. 5 gendarmes with at least three years' service in the gendarmerie on 1 January of the year of the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Policyholder and beneficiary information and pricing

Article Annexe à l'article A132-9-6

YEAR NUMBER of requests by potential beneficiaries which enabled the insurer to identify the death (article L. 132-9-2) TOTAL AMOUNT and number of contracts for which the policyholder has been identif…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Designation of national police judicial police officers

Article A13

The technical examination for national police judicial police officers provided for in article R. 5 of the present code civil servants in the management and application corps with at least three years…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes II

Article Annexe II-12 (art. A212-176)

…actise :Date of issue of authorisation to practise (date of ministerial letter) :Pursuant toarticle R. 212-84 of the French Sports Code, foreign diplomas are accepted as equivalent by the Minister for…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes III

Article Annexe III-1 (art. A312-1)

Declaration relating to sports facilities in application of article L. 312-2 of the French Sports Code q = several possible choices; m = only one possible choice Purpose of the declaration (one choice…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions under which the administrative authority may implement a decision taken by another Member State of the European Union or a State with which the Schengen acquis applies

Article R615-2

The administrative authority may, pursuant to 2° of Article L. 615-1, decide to implement an enforceable expulsion decision taken by one of the other Member States of the European Union, the Republic…

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