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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article D314-27

…ts and the conditions under which the guarantee operates, including those for borrowers' insurance; 2° Knowledge, for the various forms of consumer credit that the trainee is likely to market, of the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article D314-23

…ement of 10 June 2011 on vocational training, concluded within the framework of the national collective agreement for banking and made compulsory by the order of 5 July 2012 extending a rider and agre…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article D314-25

Lenders shall ensure that the professional knowledge and skills of their staff are kept up to date, as part of ongoing training, through appropriate professional training, the minimum duration of whic…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title III: ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE

Article D436-2

…e month of January or the first quarter of the year following that during which the tax became due; 2° For taxpayers liable for value added tax under the simplified actual taxation scheme mentioned in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: POWERS

Article L3642-2

…rticle L. 2212-2 of this Code, the President of the Metropolitan Council shall exercise the prerogatives relating to the traffic police defined in articles L. 2213-1, L. 2213-1-1, L. 2213-2 L. 2213-3,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: POWERS OF THE REGIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Article L4241-2

The President of the Regional Council shall notify the President of the Regional Economic, Social and Environmental Council of the requests for opinions and studies provided for in Article L. 4241-1.…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title IV: Obligations and contracts.

Article 1441-2

I. - The judge shall rule within twenty days on applications submitted to him pursuant to Articles 2 and 5 of the aforementioned Order. II. - The judge may not rule on these applications before the si…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Business project support contract.

Article L5142-2

…d local authority aid can be used to support and prepare the creation or takeover of an economic activity as defined inarticle L. 127-1 of the French Commercial Code.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6 - Financial monitoring of the unemployment insurance scheme

Article L5422-25

…the public finance programming law changes significantly, the Prime Minister may ask the representative employers' and employees' organisations at national and cross-industry level to take the necessa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Micro-organisms and toxins.

Article L5439-2

Attempts to commit the offences referred to in article L. 5439-1 shall be subject to the same penalties.

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