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Showing 421430 of 29517 articles for Art. 16 mai 1962

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Company mutual funds

Article L214-164

…by socially responsible companies mentioned in article L. 3332-17-1 of the Labour Code;b) For the remainder, units or financial securities admitted to trading on a regulated market, units of UCITS or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article 16-1

Within one month of being notified of the decision to refuse, suspend or withdraw authorisation, the judicial police officer may ask the public prosecutor to withdraw the decision. The public prosecut…

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

Article L214-163

I. - Unless otherwise stipulated, articles L. 214-24-24 to L. 214-26-2 apply to AIFs covered by this sub-section.II. - Company mutual funds and employee shareholding open-ended investment companies ma…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Exemptions granted by the labour inspector

Article R4228-16

Where the fitting out of collective changing rooms, washbasins and showers cannot, for reasons relating to the layout of the work premises, be carried out under the conditions provided for in this sec…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article L356-16

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, in its capacity as group supervisor, may impose a capital add-on to the group Solvency Capital Requirement where it considers that the risk profil…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VII: Advisory committee on the tax credit for research expenditure

Article 1653 F

I. - An advisory committee on tax credits for research expenditure is hereby established.This committee shall be chaired by a member of the administrative jurisdiction appointed by the Vice-President…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Election of employee representatives

Article D112-16

Each list of candidates comprises four names, i.e. two full candidates and two alternate candidates, with details of their position and department of employment. It is signed by the candidates. The li…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Household and other waste

Article L2224-16

The mayor defines the rules relating to the collection of waste collected pursuant to articles L. 2224-13 and L. 2224-14 according to its characteristics. He shall impose separate collection arrangeme…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-16

The employees' trade union organisations and the employers' professional organisations receiving financing from the Joint Fund draw up a written annual report detailing the use made of the appropriati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Out-of-court settlement procedure.

Article R1142-16

In the case provided for in Article R. 1142-15-2, the parties concerned and the insurers of the parties implicated are notified by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt of the date on whic…

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