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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and internal control

Article L533-29-3

…eport, the following information, included in the scope of consolidation defined in Articles L. 233-16 et seq. 233-16 et seq. of the French Commercial Code, for each country or territory: 1° Name of b…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The National Enforcement Committee

Article L561-38

…0°, 11°, 11° bis and 14° of Article L. 561-2;5° By a sports federation for the persons mentioned in 16° of Article L. 561-2.The dissolution of the legal entity, the cessation of activity or the resign…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Authorisation decisions

Article R1333-126

…hat of the environment and to inform the Nuclear Safety Authority as referred to in Article R. 1333-16 ; 2° The frequency with which an estimate is made of the doses to which the population is exposed…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Powers

Article L5842-22

I. - Article L. 5214-16, with the exception of VI and VII, and Articles L. 5214-16-1 to L. 5214-22 are applicable in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II.II. - For the applic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Written agreements

Article L441-3

I.-A written agreement concluded between the supplier, with the exception of suppliers of products mentioned in article L. 443-2, and the distributor or service provider sets out the reciprocal obliga…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-77

…board or director held by this person in controlled companies within the meaning of Article L. 233-16 by the company of which it is already a member of the supervisory board. For the application of t…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter VI: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN NEW CALEDONIA

Article L656-1

…sions are applicable in French Polynesia in their wording resulting from Ordinance no. 2020-1733 of 16 December 2020, unless otherwise stated or reference is made to their application by operation of…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter V: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN FRENCH POLYNESIA

Article L655-1

…sions are applicable in French Polynesia in their wording resulting from Ordinance no. 2020-1733 of 16 December 2020, unless otherwise stated or reference is made to their automatic applicability in t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article R613-31

…ed basis of a group or the competent authorities within the meaning of Articles L. 511-21 or L. 532-16 that a branch be considered to be of material importance, it shall justify its request by means o…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Principles

Article R141-9

…R. 141-15.The interruption ends :- if the application is rejected in application of article R. 141-16 of this code, on the date of notification of this rejection ;- from the date one of the parties i…

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