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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the preparation, assessment and implementation of preventive recovery plans

Article L613-37-1

I. - When a matter is referred to it by the authority of another Member State of the European Union responsible for the supervision of a group on a consolidated basis, for the purposes of examining an…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Groupings of tourist municipalities and classified tourist resorts.

Article L134-3

The provisions of articles L. 133-11 and L. 133-12 are applicable to groupings of communes or to fractions of groupings of communes constituting a single, continuous territory. The provisions of artic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Swimming pools and bathing areas.

Article L1332-3

The person responsible for a bathing water is deemed to be the person who declares the bathing water in accordance with the provisions of article L. 1332-1, or, in the absence of a declarant, the comm…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Protection of sole traders

Article L526-31

Subject to articles L. 223-9, L. 225-8-1 and L. 227-1, when the business assets contributed to a company contain assets constituting a contribution in kind, a contribution auditor shall be appointed.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title III: MEASURES FOR DEALING WITH OVER-INDebtedness

Article L731-3

The proportion of resources required for the household's current expenses is set by the commission and mentioned in the conventional recovery plan provided for in article L. 732-1 or in the measures p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Criminal penalties

Article L6242-3

Failure to submit to the inspections instituted by Articles L. 6221-9 and L. 6221-10 and obstructing the duties of the inspection officers mentioned in Article L. 6231-1 are punishable by six months'…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Voluntary termination of pregnancy.

Article L2445-3

For their application in New Caledonia and French Polynesia: 1° At the end of the first sentence of the first paragraph of article L. 2212-6, the words: "under the conditions laid down in the second p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article L641-3

The judgment opening the judicial liquidation has the same effects as those provided for in the case of safeguard by the first and third paragraphs of I and by III of Article L. 622-7, by the articles…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General information

Article L525-3

It is prohibited for any person other than those mentioned in articles L. 525-1 and L. 525-2 to issue and manage electronic money within the meaning of article L. 315-1 on a regular professional basis…

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

Article L5211-39-2

In the event of the attachment of a commune to a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status under the conditions provided for in article L. 5210-1-2, the creation of s…

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