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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment rules

Article R214-15-2

I. - When an eligible financial security or money market instrument referred to in article L. 214-20 includes a financial contract which simultaneously meets the three conditions mentioned below, the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Drinking water.

Article L1321-2

In order to ensure the protection of water quality, the act declaring the works for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption to be in the public interest, as mentioned in article L. 215…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-270

I.-When a société anonyme à participation ouvrière falls into the situation referred to in Article L. 225-248, and its dissolution has not been declared, the Extraordinary General Meeting may decide,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Mental health policy and organisation of psychiatry.

Article L3221-2

I. - A territorial mental health project, the aim of which is to continuously improve access for the people concerned to safe, seamless, quality health and life paths, is drawn up and implemented on t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41-2

The public prosecutor, as long as the public prosecution has not been initiated, may propose, directly or through an authorised person, a penal composition to a natural person who admits having commit…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: The Competition Authority.

Article L464-2

I.-The Autorité de la concurrence may order the parties concerned to put an end to anti-competitive practices within a specified period or impose on them any corrective measure of a structural or beha…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Preliminary sub-section: Common provisions

Article A322-3-2

I.-The Pass-nautique test mentioned in the last paragraph of Article A. 322-3-1 ensures that the participant is able to:-jump into the water ;float on their back for five seconds; - stand upright in t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Powers

Article L5215-22

I. - When some of the communes of a syndicate of communes or a mixed syndicate form part of an urban community, through the creation of this community, through the merger of public establishments of i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article D1432-28

The Regional Conference on Health and Autonomy is made up of a maximum of one hundred and nine members with voting rights, plus the members of the college of territorial health councils who also have…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-2

Resources intended for the Fonds de compensation pour la taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, referred to in Article L. 1615-1, are distributed among the regions, départements, communes, the Lyon metropolitan…

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