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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: "Sports instructor" speciality

Article A212-47

The "sports educator" speciality of the vocational diploma for youth, popular education and sport is organised into subject areas or multi-disciplinary areas defined by decree. In the case of a multi-…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Events and meetings subject to declaration

Article A331-17

Any registration file for an event taking place on an approved permanent circuit submitted by the organiser must include : 1° The name, postal and electronic addresses and contact details of the organ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Membership scheme

Article L424-5

The rules of the multilateral trading facility shall lay down the conditions for admission to membership of the facility, based on objective criteria, in a transparent and non-discriminatory manner. W…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L511-22

Within the limits of the services that it is authorised to provide in the territory of a Member State other than France where it has its registered office and depending on the authorisation it has rec…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The guarantee fund.

Article R334-15-1

The provisions of article R. 334-15 concerning the minimum amount of the guarantee fund do not apply to mutual insurers and unions governed by Book II of the Mutual Code which : a) either exclusively…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Standard formula

Article R352-8

The capital requirement for operational risk reflects operational risks, insofar as these are not already taken into account in the risk modules mentioned in article R. 352-5. This requirement is cali…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Investment for the preparation of sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-73

Only the following expenditure directly allocated to the preparation of the work, excluding the production company's own operating expenditure, is eligible for investment of the sums entered in the au…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK III: Certain forms of sale and exclusivity clauses.

Article L330-3

Any person who makes a trade name, brand or trade name available to another person, requiring that person to give an undertaking of exclusivity or quasi-exclusivity for the exercise of his activity, i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Safeguards.

Article L623-3

The administrator shall receive from the official receiver all information and documents useful for the performance of his mission and that of the experts.When proceedings are opened in respect of a c…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-51-3

The declaration of a société de participations financières de profession libérale de conseils en propriété industrielle shall be sent collectively by the partners, who shall appoint a common agent, to…

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