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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L526-7

…ion, after obtaining the opinion of the Banque de France under the fourth paragraph of I of article L. 141-4 or article L. 521-8. To obtain this authorisation, an application must be submitted to the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions relating to the use of a liability management structure

Article L311-42

I.-When the resolution college decides to use a liability management structure mentioned in Article L. 311-41, it may: 1° Instruct the person subject to the resolution procedure to submit to it, withi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2

…visions of Title I of this Book, including branches of the credit institutions mentioned in Article L. 511-22 and the financial institutions mentioned in Article L. 511-23 ; 1° bis Payment institution…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Revenue

Article L6264-3

…l operating grant is determined under the conditions provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 3334-1 and to article L. 3334-2, without application of Article L. 3334-7-1. The lump-sum allocat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK VII: SPECIAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO MAYOTTE

Article L1711-4

I. - Articles L. 1424-1 to L. 1424-13, L. 1424-17 to L. 1424-19, L. 1424-22, L. 1424-24 to L. 1424-44, L. 1424-46 et L. 1424-48 to L. 1424-50 shall apply in Mayotte from 1 January 2014, subject to the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Offences relating to shares.

Article L245-4

…d partnership with shares hold, directly or indirectly under the conditions provided for by Article L. 228-35-8, non-voting preference shares in the company they manage is punishable by a fine of €150…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Crisis prevention and management measures for central counterparties

Article L613-71

…for the recovery and resolution of central counterparties, under the conditions set out in Article L. 612-8-1.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Practice of the professions.

Article L4241-10

By way of derogation from article L. 4241-1, pharmacy students regularly enrolled in the third year of studies in a pharmaceutical sciences training and research unit are authorised, for the purpose o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking, payment services and electronic money

Article L754-1

…ndicated in the right-hand column of the same table:Articles applicableIn the wording resulting fromL. 311-1 Order no. 2013-544 of 27 June 2013 L. 311-2Law no. 2023-171 of 9 March 2023 containing vari…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: National health data system

Article L1461-1

…stem brings together and makes available :1° Data from the information systems mentioned in article L. 6113-7 of the present code ;2° Data from the national inter-regime health insurance information s…

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