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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to securitisation undertakings

Article L214-175-6

…L. 214-175-4. It shall not be held liable if it proves, under the conditions defined by the General Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers, that the loss is the result of an external event.…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Product monitoring and governance requirements

Article L516-1

…signing insurance products, shall develop, apply and update in accordance with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/2358 of 21 September 2017, a validation process for each insurance product, or…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IVa: Withholding

Article L614-33

…of the supplementary exploitation certificate, and outside the cases provided for by European Union regulations, the customs administration may, as part of its controls, detain goods likely to infring…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Powers exercised on behalf of the municipality.

Article L2122-21

…cts, lease property and award contracts for communal works in the forms established by the laws and regulations; 7° To enter into deeds of sale, exchange, division, acceptance of gifts or legacies, ac…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Participation in guarantee companies

Article L2253-7

As an exception to the provisions of article L. 2253-1, a municipality, alone or with other local authorities, may participate in the capital of a credit institution or a finance company in the form o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-41-1

Where the parent undertaking of a credit institution or a finance company is a credit institution, an investment firm, a financial holding company, a mixed financial holding company or a parent undert…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Money changers

Article L524-7

…of the rules applicable to manual money changers, as laid down by this Title and by Title VI or the regulations adopted for their application.II. - To this end, the customs officers referred to in I s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-10

…cle L. 723-1 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, in accordance with the procedures specified by regulation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Donation and use of elements and products of the human body.

Article L1542-9

…Article L. 5311-2" are replaced by the words: "in accordance with the conditions laid down by local regulations having the same purpose" ;2° In the last paragraph of Article L. 1241-3, the words: "in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L2151-7

…of the research.The Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine shall, within a period set by regulation, oppose the implementation of a research protocol thus declared if the protocol or the co…

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