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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Administrative authorisation for insurance and reinsurance undertakings with head offices in France

Article L321-1-1

…icle L. 310-1, or by 2° and 3° of Article L. 310-1, or for the reinsurance of all of these operations.II - Before granting authorisation to a reinsurance undertaking which is :1° Either a subsidiary o…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Administrative authorisation for insurance and reinsurance undertakings with head offices in France

Article L321-1

…and Financial Code. However, this authorisation is not required for reinsurance acceptance operations.Approval is granted at the request of the undertaking, for operations in one or more classes of in…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Administrative authorisation for insurance and reinsurance undertakings with head offices in France

Article L321-2

…ny decision to authorise an insurance or reinsurance undertaking controlled by a parent undertaking within the meaning of Article L. 356-1, the head office of which is established in a State which is…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Conditions relating to the accessibility of works to people with sensory disabilities

Article 211-17

…d.To this end, production companies must provide the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée with proof of the creation of a digital subtitling file and a digital audio description file and of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Conditions relating to the accessibility of works to people with sensory disabilities

Article 211-18

…dio description files and the adaptation of these files to any digital broadcast medium must comply with the methodological requirements of the Charter on the quality of subtitling for the deaf or har…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable in the event of obstruction by the foreign national

Article L733-8

When the voluntary obstruction of a foreign national placed under house arrest pursuant to articles L. 731-1, L. 731-3, L. 731-4 or L. 731-5 hinders the automatic enforcement of the removal decision,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Provisions specific to natural persons

Article R123-121-1

…ences of debts incurred in the exercise of his profession on joint property, drawn up in accordance with a model defined by order of the Minister of Justice.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Commercial leases.

Article R145-38

…L. 145-18, L. 145-19, L. 145-47, L. 145-49 and L. 145-55, a party has recourse to registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, the date of notification with regard to the party making the notifi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Employee savings funds.

Article D214-216

Notwithstanding article D. 214-32-10, the minimum initial capital of an employee-owned open-ended investment company is €225,000.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Employee savings funds.

Article R214-215

The asset management of an employee-share ownership open-ended investment company defined in article L. 214-166 is governed by the provisions applicable to the funds mentioned in article L. 214-165.

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