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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2 : Commission nationale d'aménagement cinématographique (National Cinematographic Development Commission)

Article L212-6-7

…agement cinématographique must comply with the obligations to file the declarations provided for in 6° of I ofarticle 11 of law no. 2013-907 of 11 October 2013 on the transparency of public life. Thei…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article L228-6-1

In companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market, when the Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders has authorised a transaction resulting either in an exchange of shares o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article R53-15

I.-The right to object does not apply to this processing pursuant to Article 23 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter V: Offences relating to investor protection

Article R465-1

When the Financial Public Prosecutor informs the Autorité des marchés financiers of his intention to initiate public proceedings pursuant to the first paragraph of II of Article L. 465-3-6, he shall s…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Equalisation allowance

Article R3334-2

For a given département, the urbanisation rate mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 3334-6-1 is equal to the ratio between, on the one hand, the municipal population of the communes in this…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 136

Failure to comply with the formalities prescribed for appearance warrants, committal warrants, detention warrants, arrest warrants and search warrants may give rise to disciplinary sanctions against t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Extemporaneous preparation and retail sale.

Article L5442-10

…r prescriptions of convenience, veterinary medicinal products as referred to in article L. 5143-5 ; 6° Systematically administering or using antimicrobial medicinal products or medicated feed containi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 62

…fence, that person must be heard pursuant to Article 61-1 and the information provided for in 1° to 6° of the same article shall then be notified to him without delay, unless his placement in police c…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Specific insurance accounting policies and valuations

Article A343-2-2

For listed securities, the estimate provided for in Article R. 343-10 is made according to the same rules as those defined in article 121-6 of regulation no. 2015-11 of 26 November 2015 of the Autorit…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article D3115-14

I. - For airports listed in the order referred to in article R. 3115-6, the entry point manager ensures that emergency medical personnel have access to all the facilities at the entry point. It may al…

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