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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-11

I.-The prices of the services covered by a contract are: 1° Either unit prices applied to the quantities actually delivered or performed; 2° Or lump-sum prices applied to all or part of the contract,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 46

Where no registers have existed, or where they have been lost, proof shall be received both by titles and by witnesses; and, in such cases, marriages, births and deaths may be proved both by the regis…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter II: Customs presentation of products subject to certain movement restrictions in trade with other Member States of the European Community.

Article 468

Where a customs presentation is required for the goods referred to in Article 38(4) and (5), the customs service shall carry out the inspection of these goods in the presence of the holder.If the hold…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of the customs service.

Article 43

1. The customs service shall act throughout the customs territory under the conditions laid down in this Code. 2. A special surveillance zone is organised along the land and sea borders. It constitute…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: French National Olympic and Sports Committee

Article L141-4

The French National Olympic and Sports Committee is responsible for conciliating disputes between licence holders, sports agents, sports associations and companies and approved sports federations, wit…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to transferable securities

Article L228-3-4

Any person employed by one of the persons referred to in articles L. 228-2 to L. 228-3-1 or participating in any capacity whatsoever in its direction or management and having, in the course of its pro…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L613-41

I. - When the preventive resolution plans are drawn up and each time they are updated, the resolution board shall assess the extent to which the persons concerned can either be wound up in accordance…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to the conclusion, assessment and implementation of group financial support agreements

Article R613-49

I. - For the application of Article L. 613-46-3, the clauses of the agreement referred to in I of this Article set the minimum and maximum time limits within which the Board of Directors, the Supervis…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to the conclusion, assessment and implementation of group financial support agreements

Article R613-48

The supervisory college shall transmit to the resolution college and, where appropriate, to the resolution authorities concerned, the group financial support agreements which it has authorised as well…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to the conclusion, assessment and implementation of group financial support agreements

Article R613-47

For the purposes of Article L. 613-46-1, notification of the decisions referred to in V of that article, taken on applications for authorisation to enter into or amend group financial support agreemen…

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