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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-9-1

If there is no suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing, the persons who issue electronic money referred to in 1°, 1° ter and 1° quater of Article L. 561-2 are not subject to the due dilig…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Replacement management support service

Article R1435-9-60

The regional health agency provides replacement practitioners with a support service for the management of their replacements. To this end, it monitors replacement needs in the areas defined in 1° of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Health and autonomy conferences

Article D1443-9-1

For its application to La Réunion, in the third paragraph of article D. 1432-46, the words: "in a special formation involving all the presidents of the territorial councils of the region," are deleted…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-6

The amount of the additional cost incurred by the interruption, postponement or abandonment referred to in article 913-5, borne by the delegated production company, is determined by the expert appoint…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L411-9

In companies with fewer than fifty employees, which do not have a works council and which are not covered by a joint body mentioned in article L. 411-20, and as far as the individual employer is conce…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L228-94

A société par actions may issue securities giving access to existing equity securities or giving entitlement to the allotment of debt securities of another company of which it does not directly or ind…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Risk Committees

Article L511-93

The Risk Committee advises the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board or any other body exercising equivalent supervisory functions on the overall strategy of the credit institution or finance comp…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article D4312-9

For the application of Article L. 4312-10, when the investment section of the budget shows a surplus, the following may be taken back into the operating section:- the proceeds from the sale of a fixed…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Minimum standards applicable to antenatal consultations.

Article R2122-9

Each antenatal clinic must have at least : 1° A medical office with all the equipment necessary for a proper examination of the patients, including a gynaecological table. At least two dressing tables…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Simplified joint stock companies.

Article L227-9

The Articles of Association determine the decisions that must be taken collectively by the shareholders in the forms and under the conditions that they provide. However, the powers vested in the extra…

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