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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Intermediary parent companies

Article L517-11

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall ensure that an intermediate parent undertaking is set up at the head of a group whose parent undertaking is established in a third country wh…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use.

Article L5138-3

Raw materials for pharmaceutical use comply with pharmacopoeia specifications where these exist. Active substances used as starting materials in medicinal products for human use are manufactured and d…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: European professional card for mountain guides

Article R212-94-2

…by the competent authority of the Member State of origin within two weeks;3° to impose, by reasoned decision, an aptitude test on the applicant, if it considers that there is a substantial difference…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Applications to suspend enforcement of the sentence

Article 625

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Misleading commercial practices

Article L132-8

…that ordered it or that is seized of the case. The measure ceases to have effect in the event of a decision to dismiss or acquit.Decisions ruling on applications for release may be appealed to the in…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Withdrawal of residence permits

Article L432-5

…fails to comply with summonses, the residence permit may be withdrawn from him or her by a reasoned decision. The decision to withdraw the permit may only be taken after the person concerned has been…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Referral by the court of the priority question of constitutionality to the Cour de cassation

Article 126-2

…plea in a separate and reasoned written document, including on the occasion of an appeal against a decision settling all or part of the dispute in proceedings that have given rise to a refusal to ref…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Management.

Article 1846

…or may not be partners, appointed either by the Articles of Association, by a separate deed or by a decision of the partners.The Articles of Association lay down the rules for appointing the manager o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Applications for review and reconsideration

Article 622-1

…orementioned Convention could not put an end to. The review may be requested within one year of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights. The review of an appeal in cassation may be requeste…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Guarantee institutions against the risk of non-payment.

Article L3253-15

…ird party. They shall also advance sums corresponding to claims established by an enforceable court decision, even if the guarantee periods have expired. Court rulings are automatically enforceable ag…

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