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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Inspections

Article L513-23

In each "Société de Crédit Foncier", a Specific Controller and an Alternate Specific Controller chosen from among the persons registered on the list of Statutory Auditors are appointed for a term of f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operations

Article L513-4

I. - Exposures to the public entities referred to in Article L. 513-2 are assets, such as loans, or off-balance sheet commitments to or fully guaranteed by the entities listed below: 1. Central govern…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Tax on the costs of chambers of commerce and industry

Article 1600

I.-The tax for chamber expenses is made up of two contributions: an additional tax on the business property tax (cotisation foncière des entreprises) and an additional tax on the business value added…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Territorial economic contribution rebate

Article 1647 C quinquies B

At the request of the taxpayer made within the legal period for lodging a claim provided for the business property tax, the sum of the territorial economic contribution, the taxes for the costs of cha…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Removal from a living person.

Article L1231-3

…qualified in the human and social sciences, are common to both panels. When the committee gives an opinion on samples taken from adults as referred to in articles L. 1231-1 and L. 1241-4, it includes…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Portfolio transfers between supplementary occupational pension funds and institutions for occupational retirement provision established in a Member State of the European Union or in a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L370-9

…ks to submit their observations. The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution will send its opinion on the transfer request within eight weeks of receiving the file to the competent authority…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 730-2

…ut in a specialised service responsible for observing detainees and accompanied by a medical expert opinion; in the case of a crime referred to in the same article 706-53-13, this assessment is carrie…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Derogations on a geographical basis

Article L3132-25-2

…d in I are defined or modified by the representative of the State in the region after obtaining the opinion of : 1° The municipal councils of the municipalities whose territory is concerned ; 2° The p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-11-1

…for short-term outings is granted by the director of the host establishment, following a favourable opinion from a psychiatrist at this establishment. If the psychiatric care measure has been taken in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L3512-7

…ission whose mission or the nature of their function requires them to take or prepare decisions and opinions of public authorities relating to tobacco products; f) Experts, whether natural or legal pe…

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