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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General rules governing UCITS

Article L214-7-1

…of its portfolio as referred to in article L. 214-7 to a management company. The registered office and head office of the management company are located in France. However, they may be located in ano…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General rules governing UCITS

Article L214-8-1

…l fund is set up at the initiative of a management company, which is responsible for its management and chooses a custodian for the fund's assets. This company draws up the fund rules.The registered o…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Ethics

Article 132-1

…igation of impartiality.They shall personally examine the matters submitted for their consideration and deliberate on them without regard to persons or factors external to these matters. They undertak…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Leasing

Article L313-10

The transactions referred to in article L. 313-7 must be publicised in a manner determined by decree. This decree specifies the conditions under which failure to publicise the transaction will result…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Registration conditions and formalities

Article A212-109

Candidates for the common part and the specific part of the brevet d'Etat d'éducateur sportif à trois degrés must satisfy the conditions laid down in article D. 212-74 and provide an application file…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1321-13-1

…n referred to in article L. 1321-2 is published in the departmental registry of administrative acts and is displayed in the town hall of each of the municipalities concerned for at least two months. A…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Validation of data in the National Register of Companies and checks carried out by certain authorities

Article R123-269

The results of the checks carried out pursuant to Article L. 123-40 are brought to the attention of the keeper of the National Register of Companies without delay through the intermediary of the singl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Validation of data in the National Register of Companies and checks carried out by certain authorities

Article R123-267

The information and documents, the registration and filing of which in the National Register of Companies are subject to validation pursuant to article L. 123-39, are transmitted to the authority resp…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: Tourist facilities.

Article L342-1

…Unless it is done on a "régie" basis, implementation is carried out under the following conditions: 1° Each operator must enter into a contract with the commune or grouping of communes or the competen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Taxes, fees or payments not provided for in the General Tax Code

Article L2333-2

…duct of the communal tax on final electricity consumption mentioned in the present article, as it stands on 31 December 2021, collected for the year 2022, increased by 1.5% or by 1% for the syndicates…

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