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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Membership and operation of professional associations of banking and payment services intermediaries

Article L519-15

…legal representatives, directors, staff and agents of the associations referred to in I of Article L. 519-11 of this Code are bound by professional secrecy in the context of the tasks referred to in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors.

Article L822-1

…drawn up by the Haut conseil du commissariat aux comptes, under the conditions set out in articles L. 822-1-1 to L. 822-1-4. II.-A list drawn up by the High Council enumerates the third-country contr…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 1: Monitoring the exercise of rights in detention and the proportionality of the measure

Article L743-12

…is continued detention where this has had the effect of infringing the rights of the foreign national.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 1: Monitoring the exercise of rights in detention and the proportionality of the measure

Article L743-11

On pain of inadmissibility, pronounced ex officio, no irregularity prior to a hearing at the end of which the liberty and custody judge extended the measure may be raised at a subsequent hearing.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 1: Monitoring the exercise of rights in detention and the proportionality of the measure

Article L743-10

The fact that the foreign national has applied for assisted return under article L. 711-2 while in detention is not in itself likely to justify refusal to extend the period of detention.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: European investment service providers

Article L532-19

…rder to supervise an investment service provider benefiting from the regime provided for in Article L. 532-18-1, the competent authorities of the home country to which it belongs may require its branc…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Challenging the measures imposed

Article L733-10

A party may challenge the measures imposed by the commission pursuant to articles L. 733-1, L. 733-4 or L. 733-7.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General rules.

Article L324-1

French insurance undertakings and their branches referred to in 1° of Article L. 310-2 as well as French branches of insurance undertakings referred to in 3° and 4° of the same Article may be authoris…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Absence due to illness or accident.

Article L1226-1-1

…of public health, in the event of a serious and exceptional health risk, as provided for inarticle L. 16-10-1 of the Social Security Code, in particular an epidemic, requiring the urgent adoption of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L1471-1

…t contract, to actions for payment or recovery of wages and to actions brought pursuant to Articles L. 1132-1, L. 1152-1 and L. 1153-1. They are without prejudice to the shorter limitation periods pro…

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