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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Obligations relating to the fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, the freezing of assets and prohibited lotteries and games

Article L773-44

…f the articles mentioned in the table above, in Article L. 563-2, references to Law no. 2010-476 of 12 May 2010 are not applicable and references to the National Gaming Authority are replaced by local…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Obligations relating to the fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, the freezing of assets and prohibited lotteries and games

Article L774-44

…f the articles mentioned in the table above, in Article L. 563-2, references to Law no. 2010-476 of 12 May 2010 are not applicable and references to the National Gaming Authority are replaced by local…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Other service providers

Article L775-32

…6Order no. 2021-1735 of 22 December 2021 II.-For the application of the aforementioned articles: In 12° of article L. 548-6, the words: "mentioned in 4° of article L. 1611-7-1 of the General Local Aut…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions.

Article L8243-2

Legal entities found to be criminally liable, under the conditions set out inArticle 121-2 of the French Penal Code, for the offence of unlawful lending of labour as provided for in Article L. 8241-1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Drawing up agreements with third parties

Article R1261-23

…the application for authorisation of the training or research project in accordance with article R. 1261-16. The agreement organises the relationship between this entity and the institution. In the si…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to the various partnerships formed for the joint practice of the profession

Article R814-93

…who has been struck off or withdrawn from the list pursuant to Article L. 811-6, of article L. 811-12, article L. 812-4 or article L. 812-9 loses his status as a partner and ceases to carry on his pr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Administrative penalties

Article R5212-31

The list of employers who have not fulfilled the obligations defined in articles L. 5212-2 and L. 5212-6 to L. 5212-11 is forwarded by the association mentioned in article L. 5214-1 to the Prefect of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Director or deputy director of a national reference centre for communicable diseases

Article R6213-5

…inister for Health may, after obtaining the opinion of the committee referred to in article L. 6213-12, in its formation provided for in article R. 6213-19, individually authorise the persons referred…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L1621-3

…nce the individual right to training of local elected representatives, provided for in Articles L. 2123-12-1, L. 3123-10-1, L. 4135-10-1, L. 7125-12-1 and L. 7227-12-1 of this code and in article L. 1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5421-8

…nalty:1° Failure by any person exploiting a medicinal product or a product mentioned in article L. 5121-1 or by any holder of the authorisation provided for in article L. 4211-6 to comply with the obl…

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