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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article R69

…or the automated national criminal record service is drawn up and, subject to the provisions of the last paragraph, sent: 1° For pardons, commutations or reductions of sentences resulting from a decre…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article R214-71

…e start of the financial year following the end of the fifth financial year after that in which the last subscriptions were made, in all other cases. As from the financial year during which the declar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Sociétés civiles de placement immobilier (non-trading property investment companies), sociétés d'épargne forestière (forestry savings companies) and groupements forestiers d'investissement (forestry investment groups)

Article R214-163

…15% of the value of all the assets of the forest savings company shown in the balance sheet for the last financial year. If no disposals are made during a financial year, the limit applicable to matur…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Safeguard plan.

Article R626-62

…provisions of this Article. I. II. - The period between the date either of the insertion or of the last of the insertions containing a notice of meeting, or of the dispatch of the letters, or of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Internal organisation of approved professional associations

Article R519-51

…ber of the committee shall submit to the committee chairman a declaration of interests covering the last three years prior to their appointment. All members of the committee are informed of these decl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article R621-7

…rt in the deliberations of a section, he shall be replaced under the conditions provided for in the last paragraph of this I. In the event of absence, the Chairman of the Commission shall entrust one…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 7: Provisions specific to credit institutions, investment firms, finance companies, electronic money institutions and payment institutions

Article R784-12

…eplaced by references to equivalent locally applicable provisions having the same purpose;3° In the last paragraph of IIa and IV of Article R. 613-46-3, the words: "and the European Central Bank" are…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prudential control and resolution authority

Article R782-8

…2013-978 of 30 October 2013R. 612-49n° 2011-769 of 28 June 2011R. 612-50 with the exception of its last two paragraphsn° 2014-1315 of 3 November 2014R. 612-50-1n° 2021-898 of 6 July 2021R. 612-51n° 2…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prudential control and resolution authority

Article R783-8

…2013-978 of 30 October 2013R. 612-49n° 2011-769 of 28 June 2011R. 612-50 with the exception of its last two paragraphsn° 2014-1315 of 3 November 2014R. 612-50-1n° 2021-898 of 6 July 2021R. 612-51n° 2…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 7: Provisions specific to credit institutions, investment firms, finance companies, electronic money institutions and payment institutions

Article R783-12

…eplaced by references to equivalent locally applicable provisions having the same purpose;3° In the last paragraph of IIa and IV of Article R. 613-46-3, the words: "and the European Central Bank" are…

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