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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freezing of assets and prohibition on making assets available to third parties

Article L773-43

…ons mentioned in the first paragraph applicable" are deleted; 2° In a and b of 2° of article L. 562-4, the words: "or any other form of freedom of establishment and under the freedom to provide servic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freezing of assets and prohibition on making assets available to third parties

Article L774-43

I - Pursuant to Article 7, 8° of Organic Law No. 2004-192 of 27 February 2004, subject to the provisions of II, III and IV, Articles L. 562-1 to L. 562-15 are applicable by operation of law in French…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Increased rates for calculating sums representing automatic aid

Article 917-4

…total revenue from feature films is greater than €307,500 and less than or equal to €615,000;- 170.48% when the total revenue from feature films is greater than €615,000 and less than or equal to €1,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Storage receipts

Article L522-37-4

…icial allocation of the pledge of goods represented by a storage receipt are governed by Articles 2346 to 2348 of the Civil Code.Information relating to the pledge may be consulted free of charge on a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Multi-annual intervention and financial participation agreements

Article R1233-4

…4° The procedures for communicating about the projects supported by the agency and how they relate t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1b: Harvesting of haematopoietic cells from bone marrow or peripheral blood from an adult donor

Article R1241-4

…gency, consent is obtained by the public prosecutor under the conditions defined in article R. 1231-4.These provisions apply to a protected adult who is not the subject of a legal protection measure w…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Compensation for unpaid claims.

Article R663-43

…buées en application du deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 663-3; 3° Managing the fund's surplus cash; 4° Monitoring its financial equilibrium; 5° Keeping its accounts; 6° Reporting on its management.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Bodies and operations

Article L5842-4

…w no. 2011-525 of 17 May 2011 L. 5211-9 law no. 2018-607 of 13 July 2018 L. 5211-9-1 law no. 2001-1248 of 21 December 2001 L. 5211-9-2 with the exception of the third and last two paragraphs of A of I…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IIIa: The national platform for judicial interception

Article R40-47

…s and judicial police agents of the national gendarmerie and police respectively mentioned in 2° to 4° of Article 16 and in article 20, customs and tax officials authorised to carry out judicial inves…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Points scale for works in the fiction genre

Article D331-43

…stributed as follows: a) Alternatively:when a relative majority of the scenes take place in France: 4 points;-or when a relative majority of the scenes take place in France and a French-speaking count…

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