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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L113-15-3

…same code. They are liable to an administrative fine of up to 3,000 euros for a natural person and 15,000 euros for a legal entity. The administrative authority responsible for competition and consum…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Deposit guarantee mechanism and resolution funding mechanism

Article L312-6-1

…nt to Article 19(3) of Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2014 on the compatibility of recourse to the Single Resolution Fund with the rules of the in…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article L612-9

…be granted without authorisation, and the procedures provided for in the articles L. 612-14, L. 612-15 and 1° of article L. 612-21 may not be committed.Subject to Article L. 612-10, the authorisation…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1798 ter

…ringements of the rules relating to the obligation and procedures for keeping registers: a fine of €15 per omission or inaccuracy or a penalty of between one and three times, depending on the case, th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Urban solidarity and social cohesion grant.

Article L2334-16

Benefit from the allocation provided for in article L. 2334-15 :1° The first two-thirds of municipalities with 10,000 inhabitants or more, classified, each year, according to a synthetic index of reso…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIa: Socio-judicial supervision

Article 763-8

…he regional secure detention court may, in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 706-53-15, decide to extend all or some of the obligations to which the person is subject, beyond the perio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Information provided by the promoter

Article R1123-70

…f the research ; 2° Where applicable, the information mentioned in 2°, 3° and 4° of article R. 5121-15 for research involving an investigational medicinal product; 3° Where applicable, the investigato…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation

Article R1271-19

…usiness difficulties ; 2° Any failure to implement the undertakings provided for in article D. 1271-15, the validation of which enabled the authorisation to be issued; 3° The measures it has taken to…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Role of the Government Commissioner

Article R2135-20

For the application of the provisions of the fourth paragraph of II of Article L. 2135-15, the Government Commissioner has a period of twenty-one days from the date of receipt of the deliberation of t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Seller's lien.

Article L141-22

…f a merger or demerger, the provisions of the previous paragraph do not apply where articles L. 236-15, L. 236-25 and L. 236-26 are applied or where the option provided for in article L. 236-27 is exe…

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