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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Funding bodies

Article D214-232-1

Notwithstanding the provisions of article D. 214-232, the following securitisation undertakings are excluded from the scope of II of article L. 214-167 : 1° Economic loan funds referred to in I ofarti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: The savings bank network.

Article R512-57

The credit institution or finance company concerned and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution are notified of the decision by the central body of the caisses d'épargne et des banques po…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Aid for property investment and leasing granted to businesses

Article R1511-10

…creation or expansion of economic activities in the regional aid areas delimited by Decree no. 2022-968 of 30 June 2022 on regional aid areas and investment aid areas for small and medium-sized enterp…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Aid for property investment and leasing granted to businesses

Article R1511-4-1

For the application of this section, aid granted in the forms provided for in Article L. 1511-3 for the financing of real estate projects under leasing and hire-purchase contracts is considered to be…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Rates for special local procedural acts in the départements of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle

Article A444-39

The services listed under numbers 143 to 145,146 and 149 of table 3-2 give rise to the collection of the following fees:Number of the service (table 3-2 of article appendix 4-7)Description of the serv…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Second-hand equipment

Article R4312-4

…on set out in Annex I to Article R. 4312-1. However, protective structures conforming to decree no. 90-490 of 15 June 1990 and other safety components conforming to a model which has been the subject…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Rights and obligations of jobseekers

Article R5524-2

…eficiary is married under the local law civil status regime, as it existed prior to Order no. 2010-590 of 3 June 2010 on provisions relating to the local law civil status applicable in Mayotte and to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Beverages.

Article L3351-6-1

…rages at a fuel sales outlet outside the hours specified in the fourth paragraph of article L. 3322-9 or selling refrigerated alcoholic beverages there is punishable by a fine of €7,500. A repeat offe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-11

…ic prosecutor in accordance with the procedures described in the third paragraph of Article R. 53-8-9. The document provided for in the penultimate paragraph of article R. 53-8-9 is given or sent to t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General authorisation conditions.

Article R4211-16

…transfer, import or export of gene therapy preparations and to those mentioned in article L. 4211-9 relating to the preparation, storage, distribution, transfer, import or export of xenogenic cell t…

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