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

Article L5217-10-2

…pment objectives included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted on 25 September 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly. The content of this report and, if necessary, the procedu…

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

Article L5217-10-7

I. - If the Metropolitan Council so decides, the allocations for capital expenditure include programme authorisations and payment appropriations.Programme authorisations constitute the upper limit of…

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

Article L5217-10-9

When the investment section or the operating section of the budget includes either programme authorisations and payment appropriations, or commitment authorisations and payment appropriations, the Pre…

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

Article L5217-10-3

…However, for grants for which there are no conditions of award, the Metropolitan Council may decide:1° To individualise the appropriations per beneficiary in the budget; or2° To draw up, in a statemen…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Investigations

Article D15-5-1

When the requisitions provided for in Article 60-1 relating to information from a computer system or processing of personal data are sent to one of the bodies or persons mentioned in Article R. 15-33-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Debt securities.

Article D213-0-1

I. - The debt securities referred to in 2° and 3° of Article L. 213-0-1 may be held for a maximum of one year after their acquisition. However, this maximum period is reduced to 60 calendar days for d…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Account rights and customer relations

Article R312-1-2

…charges relating to irregularities in the operation of a bank account as referred to in article L. 312-1-3, payment incidents as referred to in article L. 131-73 and II of article L. 133-26 and those…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Account rights and customer relations

Article R312-4-1

The fees charged by credit institutions, referred to in the first sentence of article L. 312-1-3 of the Monetary and Financial Code, may not exceed €8 per transaction and €80 per month per bank accoun…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Interest rates

Article D313-1-A

I. - For each of the categories mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 313-2, the legal interest rate applicable for a given half-year is calculated as follows:1° For claims by natural person…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Sociétés de crédit foncier

Article R513-1-A

…heir issue, the "obligations foncières" and other senior debt referred to in 2° of I of Article L. 513-2 are subject to a programme defined with regard to the legal and contractual characteristics of…

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