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Showing 10511060 of 7437 articles for Art. TEPA Act 21 August 2007

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Availability of beneficiaries' rights.

Article D3324-21-2

…ficiary requests payment of the profit-sharing in accordance with the provisions of article R. 3324-21-1, the undertakings shall make this payment before the first day of the sixth month following the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article L5211-21-1

…tus which exercise the competence of tourism or the public establishments mentioned in articles L. 5211-21 et L. 5722-6 collecting the tourist tax or the flat-rate tourist tax and the metropolitan are…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Acquisition of French nationality by declaration of nationality

Article 21-13-1

…he same first paragraph is made. The Government may object, under the conditions defined in Article 21-4, to the acquisition of French nationality by the declarant who avails himself of the provisions…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Shareholding and control

Article L214-24-21

…ent entered into for that purpose, acquire control of a company or issuer referred to in Article L. 214-24-23;2° AIFs or their management companies cooperating with one or more other AIFs or their man…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Customs officers responsible for certain judicial police duties

Article R15-33-21

When acting in the context of a preliminary investigation, authorised customs officers may relate in a single report the various operations carried out in the course of the same investigation. If seve…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Provisions specific to mutual assistance between France and the other Member States of the European Union

Article D47-1-21

…sequences of the coexistence of parallel criminal proceedings against the same persons for the same acts in several Member States of the European Union, the French judicial authorities shall communica…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: The insurance certificate.

Article R211-21-3

The certificate referred to in article R. 211-21-2 is issued by the insurance undertaking within a maximum of fifteen days of taking out the contract and renewed when subsequent premiums or portions o…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: The insurance certificate.

Article R211-21-2

For the application of article R. 211-21-1, any insurance company operating in the territory of the French Republic must issue, free of charge, a certificate for each of the vehicles covered by the co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Supervision of groups on a consolidated basis

Article L613-21-6

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may, when acting as the authority responsible for the supervision of a subsidiary of an undertaking which has its head office in another Member Sta…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: European FIA management companies

Article L532-21-3

…ies of the management company's home Member State or if such measures prove inadequate or are not practicable in the Member State concerned, the management company continues to refuse to provide the i…

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