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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to investment firms

Article R532-8-1

…r indirect qualifying holding in the capital of an investment firm referred to in I of Article L. 531-6, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall assess the suitability of the propos…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article L311-20

Articles L. 632-1 to L. 632-4 of the French Commercial Code do not apply to measures decided by the resolution college pursuant to this chapter or to acts carried out by the persons it appoints pursua…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Candidate registration requirements

Article A212-38

…of the session, the training body sends the Regional Director of Youth, Sport and Social Cohesion : 1° The list of host companies for each trainee and the list of their tutors ; 2° The definitive sche…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 231-4

Direct allocations are awarded when the following conditions are met: 1° Cinematographic establishments organise an average number of film screenings per cinema equal to or greater than 400 per year d…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 621-6

The following are eligible for direct subsidies:1° Long-length cinematographic works for which investment approval has been granted;2° Audiovisual works in the fiction and creative documentary genres…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose, organisation and operation

Article D6352-25

The purpose of vocational training centres is: 1° Either to provide workers with accelerated vocational training enabling them to practise a trade, adapt to a new trade or acquire a higher level vocat…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Rules applicable to financial contracts, temporary acquisitions and sales of financial instruments and guarantees

Article R214-15

A UCITS may enter into the financial contracts referred to in 5° of the I of Article L. 214-20 concluded on the markets referred to in 1°, 2° or 3° of the I of Article R. 214-11 or traded over-the-cou…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Rules applicable to financial contracts, temporary acquisitions and sales of financial instruments and guarantees

Article R214-16

I - The financial indices mentioned in article R. 214-15 meet the following conditions:1° Their composition is sufficiently diversified, in the sense that the following criteria are met:a) The index i…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1147

…il register. Failing this, the certificate of filing is kept in the register mentioned in Article 4-1 of the decree of 1 June 1965 creating a central civil status department at the Ministry of Foreign…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Single integration contract

Article L5522-2-1

…ique, Mayotte, La Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Article L. 5134-19-3 reads as follows:"Art. L. 5134-19-3 -The single integration contract takes the form of :"1°…

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